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record

[ri-kawrd, rek-erd] / rɪˈkɔrd, ˈrɛk ərd /


NOUN
achievement
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK






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But Stewart, who also co-directs a voting technology project with Caltech, said Congress’ problems run deeper than its current record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Alan Shearer knows that if he wants to preserve his record as the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer, it would be helpful if Erling Haaland moved away from the English top flight.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The previous record was five years between the release of “GTA 4” and “GTA 5,” so there’s 13 years of pent-up demand at play.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Prices of bonds issued by several hyperscalers dropped near record lows on Friday, and have fallen to the point where their yields—which move inversely—are significantly higher than those of typical investment-grade corporate bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now, in February 2007, subprime loans were defaulting in record numbers, financial institutions were less steady every day, and no one but him seemed to recall what he’d said and done.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“When you’ve got competitive races, you’ve got a lot of money flowing into competitive races, and I think that perfect storm has helped enable a lot of new records to be shattered this election cycle.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

McDonnell has acknowledged delays in producing records, saying that the unit tasked with reviewing and releasing the information is “grossly understaffed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

But the project has faced liens due to unpaid construction bills, according to records filed with Travis County, Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto this month reported that between $55 million and $87 million in funds the nonprofit received couldn’t be reconciled with public financial records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Malone’s instruments, and Malone’s records, were the most reliable sources of information.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Security firms that monitor activity on blockchains, the digital ledgers where crypto transactions are recorded, had also spotted the anomaly at Binance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The University of Florida's Election Lab had recorded 47,922,669 early votes nationwide by midday, surpassing the previous midterm record of 45.9 million cast ahead of Election Day in 2022.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

In 2026, record-breaking temperatures were recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, with the highest average monthly temperature in August 82.5 degrees and, in October, 89 degrees, according to data from the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Countless mobile phone videos have recorded such arrests in places previously considered off-limits: parents detained outside schoolyards, at bus stops, youth sporting events and even inside courthouses at pre-arranged immigration hearings.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jennings recorded Madison’s subsequent last words as “Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Make sense of the midterms with Slate: Speaking of tricks and treats, watch this livestream recording from Slate’s politics team, who broke down all the spooky thrills and chills we can expect on Election Day.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

In the US, music used at campaign rallies often requires a public performance licence for it to be played for an audience, even if a campaign has already purchased a legal copy of the recording.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

"This is the first time we've leveraged the full volume of very rich information provided by an EEG recording to understand face perception and autism," McPartland says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Their first duo recording, “Metakosmos,” released by Fuga Libera on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

If he wanted to combine his love of medicine with anthropology, recording his observations, testing his academic theories, he thought, there was perhaps no better laboratory in the Western Hemisphere.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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