respond
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Save the Children is mobilising an emergency team to respond to Sunday's flood.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Attorneys general offices for the remaining six states did not respond to requests for comment.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
A government spokesperson did not immediately respond to request for comment on the PTI provincial leader detentions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The team extended the experiments to additional groups of mice, including animals with type 2 diabetes and others that lacked the receptor needed to respond to GLP-1.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
It was enough for her to keep up with Duane’s different emotions, studying them, naming them, and thinking about the proper way to respond to them.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
McVay said once the record-setting pass rusher is “hitting all the benchmarks,” the Rams will monitor how his knee responds to football-related activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
To keep the medication in place longer, the team created a specialized hydrogel made from Collagen II. The material responds to temperature.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
It has worked on red-team testing with AI companies, the process of probing how a chatbot responds to dangerous requests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Gracias, gracias,” Naomi responds with tears in her eyes.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
“I love Jackson Hole. I like Park City. I like the mountains. I also like beaches,” Paxton responded.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
He responded well to a disappointing performance in the defeat by Brighton, where he made his full league debut.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It did not say how Trump responded, nor elaborate on Iran's position.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
He first responded that he was sending money to a daughter abroad, then that they were for “face-to-face” purchases of African diamonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“I text you the word ‘pancake,’” she responded.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
To understand how Ukraine is responding, last month I visited an air-defense center protecting Kyiv, one of several such hubs nationwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Its employees are famous for responding to customers with the relentlessly chipper “My pleasure!”
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
In neighbouring Alabama, a sheriff was injured when a tree fell on him as he was responding to a car crash.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Researchers found that changes in tumor DNA in the bloodstream closely reflected how well patients were responding.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
When he realized arguing with fanatic believers was futile, Dr. Lee stopped responding, “he had other business to attend to.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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