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In September a jury of nine women and three men was unable to reach a unanimous decision, as required in criminal proceedings in the United States, leading to a mistrial.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
He wants badly to reach out to the Iraqis to find some kind of relief, hence the film’s title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The teenager had managed to reach safety and suffered non-serious injuries.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
"The next step is to point this at systems where nobody knows the response of the system quantitatively -- including regimes that classical computers can't reach."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
But the purpose of the drills was to see how rapidly people could reach the room at any hour of the day or night without prior notice.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The snowpack in the area measured just 1% of average on May 1, when it typically reaches its seasonal peak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
If clinicians can spot deterioration earlier, they may be able to intervene before a patient reaches the crisis point that triggers a conventional alarm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Bompastor said the 29-year-old was "a boss on the pitch" when she reaches those levels and it helps the team have "better foundations".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Tebow said his representatives are now investigating the allegations before he reaches his own conclusions about Life Surge.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The group continues their stroll around campus and eventually reaches a corner several blocks away, where Joey sees another large hole in the ground.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Now that an agreement with Regeneron has been reached, Sanofi investors are likely to switch their focus to the company’s moves to strengthen its business through dealmaking, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
News of the deal comes amid a difficult year for Oracle, with shares down over 50% since the highs reached in September of last year, when enthusiasm for companies connected to the artificial-intelligence trade heightened.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The helicopter reached about 500 feet before an 11-second descent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
We had known, of course, that when overcrowding reached a certain point, the sickest were taken to the brick building at the foot of the great square smokestack.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Saturday is expected to be the peak of the heat wave, with temperatures reaching triple digits in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Prisons in England and Wales are a matter of months away from reaching capacity, with Ministry of Justice data showing as of Monday 87,499 people were incarcerated, taking prison population levels up to 98.2%.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
"France's fiscal package would prevent the deficit from reaching 6.5 percent of GDP next year, but it would not stabilise public debt," analysts at ING said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Its three dimensional structure creates a barrier that keeps insects from reaching the plants, while the layered material still allows sunlight, rain, and air to pass through.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
She did this by reaching out her trunk to touch his face.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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