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record

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


NOUN
achievement
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK






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It was just the the timing ... and we both decided to record separately.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The 19-year-old bettered the world record set by Australia's Kaylee McKeown three years ago by 0.23secs in her semi-final.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Revenue climbed to a new record, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

For the record, Meyer considers herself both a cat and a dog person — “I’m just an animal dude overall,” she says — but felt cats worked better for the story.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

This afternoon she was moving faster than any other hurricane on record.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

South Korea's Kospi surged almost five percent in the opening minutes amid a revival of the AI trade that fuelled the market's eye-watering surge to multiple records this year.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Property records show that the rocker and his wife, Aimee Oates, held on to the residence, known as Little Woody Creek Ranch, for eight more years.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

To commemorate the release, Rideaux and Hussle’s team dropped multiple limited edition vinyl records of the album as well as cassettes and T-shirts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Repeated heatwaves after a warmer than usual spring have led to predictions of the worst harvest since records began.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

After more than thirty years there was little hope that the records still existed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

It was recorded almost by accident at the end of a session with French-Congolese star Theodora on a hot and sticky February night in LA.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The average temperature in the contiguous U.S. in July, equivalent to 24.9 degrees Celsius, which was the hottest month ever recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"The recovery in growth rates, which was already recorded in March, continues despite ongoing external pressure and constraints in certain sectors," said Russia's economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Participants visited MIT for a series of MRI scans that recorded patterns of brain activity as they completed different tasks.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

When she was twenty, she recorded composer Edward Elgar’s cello concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

But the DA cautioned that adequate security was needed to prevent spectators from covertly recording the trial from an overflow room in violation of New York law.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

At oral arguments earlier this year, lawyers for the state’s court system urged the justices to green-light electronic recording, saying they’d already done everything in their power to fix the problem.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

They throw up, and if we play it, we’ll have to have them here, and they’ll throw up on the console in the recording studio, and we don’t want them.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Until now, recording proceedings was prohibited in most California superior court cases, requiring a licensed reporter to be present in order take down each word that was spoken for the official record.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

“Let me know when to start recording video again,” said Kojo.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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