ring
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Savery told The Times that her husband gave her a diamond ring from Holdo’s store for their 20th wedding anniversary in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
What it exposed was the difference between possessing world-level talent and having the conditioning, experience and ring craft required to manage a 12-round world-title fight.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Austrian police and Europol also recently dismantled another people-smuggling ring financed through hawala, which officials said had transported about 100,000 people into Europe over 18 months.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ospreay's ring nickname comes from his love of video game series Assassin's Creed, and admits he effectively "ripped off" elements for his wrestling.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I turned around to see where he was, and was just in time to see him step very gently over the little toadstools into the fairy ring.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The church bell rang midway through the tune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Trump’s voice rang out through the otherwise empty store.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Repeated explosions reportedly rang out over Novorossiysk throughout the night as air defences shot down aerial objects.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Over the following days, explosions rang in the air while the ship's navigation system stopped working.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tansy grabbed up the cowbell on her desk and rang it over her head, introducing a new tradition to orthography.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Since 1982, policymakers and prominent economists have gathered in this valley ringed by mountains in Grand Teton National Park -- known to most people more for its bison than for spirited debates on macroeconomics.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
As access reopened mid-morning, AFP saw the blackened remains of several burnt-out cars along roads near Omis, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat of the fires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Set on a peninsula ringed by vineyards and nature reserves, St. Tropez’s surroundings still feel wild, thanks to a 1986 national law that preserves large tracts of coastline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
She pointed across the valley to a property ringed by darkened trees and vegetation.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Barbarossa shifted his massive body forward a bit further and grabbed the pole with his ringed fingers.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
"Had I decided to close the school after the period, nothing might be left, only the bell would be ringing at 9:30."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The cellmate “tried to press intercom again to summon help, and it just kept ringing and ringing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Given the significant role Walmart plays in the lives of many Americans, the deterioration will set some alarm bells ringing over whether the consumer is running out of steam," Saunders said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Tinnitus, often described as ringing in the ears, occurs when someone perceives a sound inside the ear or head even though no external source is producing it.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The alarm stopped ringing and the lights in the lab returned to normal.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
And there is the middle rung, including business administration, urban studies and chemistry, whose graduates take home around $70,000 on average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Condos really represent kind of the entry rung to the homeownership ladder,” Berner, the economist, said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
“And so that usually puts that group of people into a lower rung of the income distribution.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was the fourth consecutive World Cup in which the U.S. has gone out in the final 16, a rung on the tournament ladder the Americans have gotten past just once in 96 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
"Come on," I mutter, glancing up at a rung that looks painfully close.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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