rear
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And following an Aug. 26 fire at the Babcock property, which damaged the rear of an adjacent home, Bass and Raman went after each other for not having addressed all those pleas for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
These AI-powered cameras take a picture of the rear of every car that drives past.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Firefighters responded, opened the rear end of the truck and used pike poles to remove the garbage by hand, according to Samuel Menchaca, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
When the revs and loads are light, the engine control shuts down the rear bank of cylinders to save fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
To these strains us mourners began to troop down for a final farewell to Miss Myrt, starting from the rear.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Like most sheep farmers, Williams primarily rears them for meat and breeding rather than for their wool, but it still has to be taken care of.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But for the most part, Ferraiolo says, young people have a fear of missing out—a phenomenon that rears its head every time an investment soars, as seen in recent years with cryptocurrency and meme stocks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Still, the Brisbane speech, which rears its sombreroed head into any Google search of the author, marked a shift in the way Shriver engaged with the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
This is the dual state that you lived in, and that you worked in, and that must be called out unflinchingly whenever it rears its head, yet, paradoxically, also now more than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025
It rears with a fiery roar and launches through the darkness, toward the sunlight shining through the glass ceiling.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Insect larvae reared at higher temperatures will develop faster and reach pupation at a smaller size.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
He even managed to send two of his four children to university with the help of government grants by selling livestock he reared by himself.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Ideally, you want them to spend time with their parents, to be reared by their parents and learn the skills necessary.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
But then love and marriage reared its head and Burden’s story took a dark turn, which she chronicles with a keen forensic eye in her buzzy new memoir, “Strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Fflewddur’s horse reared as the Huntsmen turned their attack against him.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
John does all that too, on top of his parents blasting all fear out of him while rearing him to expect the universe to be unforgiving.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Bloom said young eagles, like KD1, are more prone to grave mistakes when it comes to rearing young, from egg to eaglet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
In a late July televised speech President Herzog, who holds a mostly ceremonial role, warned of "violence rearing its head" and reminded citizens that "elections are not a civil war".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
She remembered rearing horses, a food cart spilling melons as it overturned.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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