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[sayv] / seɪv /




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It also would require the state to save more in years when tax revenues are high, helping to weather economic ups and downs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

What about the people who aren’t worried about whether their retirement savings will last 20 or 30 years because they never had the opportunity to save in the first place?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Livieri, 55, is one of a handful of biologists pulling night shifts across the Great Plains to save the black-footed ferret from extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

He said the group helped save his life and brought "him back from cardiac arrest".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Had he lied— invented an excuse to explain Anna May’s absence so he could save face?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Chelsea keeper Mike Penders made two excellent saves.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

It says it saves nearly $4 million a year by having the trucks drive themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“When adversity hits and the finger-pointing begins, it’s your chemistry that saves you,” Mission Viejo coach Chad Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

In a milieu where every fold and crease, every millimeter of negative draft or change of curvature, adds cost, the S5 saves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

He makes himself coffee and eats the cornbread or biscuits Ma saves for him from our meal the night before.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

What happens to the millions of people who have little or nothing saved for retirement?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

It was not just of one individual or group that saved American democracy.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

An ecologist in the Scottish Borders is fighting to be allowed to keep a badger that he saved from starvation.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Roughly 47% of Americans say they have less than $100,000 saved for retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

When he came back, he had what little money he and Mama had saved.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

With permanent daylight saving time, that figure would rise to more than 20 million trips per state.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

They’re a flagship species too, meaning saving them helps preserve other wildlife in the prairie ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Motivations include saving money, giving items to charity and disgust at how often perfectly usable items are being consigned to waste - or a combination of all three.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

We’ve already accepted a surprisingly elaborate set of conditions for saving money on groceries.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

There was no saving Sharon’s reputation in their eyes, and just as little hope for her future.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith


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