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In the publication’s sample, Doubao was frequently more expensive, sometimes by as much as 80 yuan, or roughly $11.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Since 2022, the NFL has held more than two dozen international contests, but even that broad sample fails to provide a definitive answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Olympic and World Championships marathon gold medallist Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after an out-of-competition sample tested positive for EPO.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Los Angeles County officials reviewed a sample of 200 of those voter registrations and found that nearly 40% indicated they were born in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Getting close enough to reach a sample, however, meant reaching into the mouth of the beast.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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To investigate this possibility, Salta and her colleagues examined donated human brain tissue obtained through the Netherlands Brain Bank, a research resource that collects and preserves brain samples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Evans also has a biotech start-up, Haemanthus, which is developing laser-based technology to analyze biological samples, an undertaking with echoes of Holmes’ failed blood-testing company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Of the three shop-floor technicians who handle and inspect samples, one has an associate degree, and another spent some time in college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The song uses samples from two different speeches: toward the end, from Pedro Albizu Campos, but ironically the opening voice belongs to Carlos Romero Barceló, a pro-statehood governor reviled in pro-independence circles on the island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
He’d scoop up ash from the crater and gather samples of the gas seeping out.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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All the caviar we sampled looked pristine, but some roe tasted like a big ol’ gulp of the ocean, including two varieties from Imperia, a limited edition Petrusco offering, and Roe House’s Hackleback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Those profiles varied considerably between animals, while remaining comparatively stable when the same cats were sampled on different dates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Saint-Maximin also sampled the highs as a resurgent Newcastle qualified for the Champions League in his final campaign on Tyneside in 2023.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Perry and her partner, Canada's former prime minister Justin Trudeau, sampled the delights of Mykonos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
From a scramble of contenders I got one of the jugs, elbowed off a counterattack, opened it, sampled it, choked, and then went through with my original plan by stopping Brinker’s mouth with it.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Smaller bowls encourage sampling; larger ones let guests settle in with their favorites.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
This repeated sampling allowed scientists to track changes in methane concentrations over many years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The technical team then come along and cut off the sampling devices, ready to send to Bangor University.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Mary watched one day as a zalif examined the hole in her front wheel, touching here and there, lifting her trunk up in the air and back again, as if sampling the scent.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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