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Lew highlighted Ann Mannix’s accomplishments within the department, where she worked for more than three decades, rose to the rank of deputy chief and was the first woman to lead the department’s tactical company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
With the improved reactor design, that selectivity rose to approximately 97%.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 195.60 points, or 0.38%, to 51850.55.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
U.S. and European yields rose, but stayed below recent highs as the global bonds selloff eased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
A house in Nollie’s block mysteriously deserted, grass growing in the rose garden.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The title track opens the set with a patiently strummed acoustic guitar and Beck’s voice leading with “Yesterday / Paper roses they forgot to bloom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
At the base of the charred pine are dozens of bouquets — roses, daisies and white lilies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Patterson's trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the front gardens, yellow and red roses bloom to match the houses’ exteriors; in the back, a sunny 4-foot cocktail pool with a natural limestone border awaits guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The woman’s hair explodes into an afro that is decorated with strawberry-red roses and blueberry-colored butterflies.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Alas, a crimson river of warm blood, Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind, Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips, Coming and going with thy honey breath.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
It is a beautiful little type, "rosed from top to toe in flush of youth."
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
"I feel like Jupiter!" he called, rubbing his sides, and back, standing on one foot to dry the other, his glossy skin all rosed in patches from his vigorous rubbing.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
She sank; she snatched at colours; they were peel Of fruit past savour, in derision rosed.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
Roses in a royal throng, Surging, rosing from the east!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt