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It also plans to save costs in the long run by investing in an in-house special-education program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Rejection usually makes people angry and is motivation to run away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The house was built without insulation, so our heating bills regularly run upward of $800 a month even though we keep the house at a chilly 67, urging the kids to wear extra sweaters.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
The 32-year-old lasted five deliveries and did not score a run.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Not after eating two servings of the musakhan that Zara’s dad left for us before he had to run out to a meeting.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Apply for help before the tank runs dry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Randy Cassingham, a passenger on board who runs a cruise blog, wrote that the disembarkation order followed a "cascade of problems".
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
India's middle order then ticked off the remaining 21 runs required with ease, with New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner's figures of 1-17 off three overs an outlier in a painful match for bowlers.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Milwaukee scored eight runs in the fifth inning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He runs his fingertips along the shiny metal counter.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Refineries ran at 92.8% of capacity, down from 93.4% the previous week, with crude input to refineries falling by 123,000 barrels a day to 16.5 million barrels a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
She was the only one to mention the Haitians all night, and her speech ran five seconds over.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Around 200 passengers who paid to live on a cruise ship while travelling the world were abruptly left in a Cambodian port after the company ran out of money, an official said on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Lula is a longtime labor activist and co-founder of the left-wing Workers’ Party, who ran losing campaigns for president three times before being elected in 2002 and reelected in 2006.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
I ran sobbing down the corridor and washed and washed beneath the wall spigot in the latrine.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But Chavez and Huerta felt women’s participation was critical to the union’s success, and Huerta’s visibility gave other women permission to get involved: picketing, running the union’s health clinics, working as field directors or clerks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
When we bought the place, I envisioned our children running wild in the backyard under the climbing wisteria, but the wisteria is invasive, and it ate away at our fence and choked the rhododendrons.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
I have friends who explore unfamiliar places by running through neighborhoods at sunrise or sketching what they see.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, former Pixar filmmaker Brad Bird could also find himself back in the running with his Netflix title, ‘Ray Gunn.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
There had to be a good reason she was running late.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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