schedule
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For Pride, who has lived most of his life on someone else’s schedule, the free time of retirement in South Florida can be both a luxury and a burden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Among the discoveries was a typed schedule detailing Queen Elizabeth II's plans to host a diplomatic reception in her Silver Jubilee year of 1977.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Take my reaction to the colleague who told me we’d have to change the timeline on a joint project, thanks to a surprise in her schedule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I was trying to schedule a hip MRI on both hips when the imaging center told me my coverage was “not active.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
I didn’t realize how adrift I’d felt by not having a schedule to build my days around.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Kickoff at 10.35am local time on Friday may not be typical for local fans, but meets the demands of prime time US television schedules and their advertisers.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The next day, Emirati carrier Flydubai followed suit, saying it was adjusting schedules and flight paths due to the “evolving situation in the region.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bureau staffers caught problems mid-transfer, from inaccurate due dates to botched repayment schedules, and directed the companies to fix them.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Good teams are given harder schedules than bad ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He thought fleetingly of trying to set something up with the D.A., but there again was the problem that people would be missed from lessons; most of them, after all, still had full schedules...
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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For many investors, he noted that the scheduled meeting on Sept. 24 between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping “represents the last credible off-ramp.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The two-hour show is scheduled for a three-day run in April and will feature music by Max Richter and performances by guest artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It explains that Johnson's "night service to Poland had departed earlier than scheduled due to the threat of attacks" following a conference in Kyiv.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
A prison in Norco, also in Riverside County, is scheduled to close in October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
My parents scheduled me for ankle surgery a couple of weeks later.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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The truth was, she was generally well-organized, reliable and extremely proactive; this scheduling glitch was a departure from the habits that had made her a valued collaborator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Substantive progress was made, including movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks," US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Politico surveyed 70 GOP candidates and members and found that most of them weren’t going because they had convenient scheduling conflicts.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Afterwards Williams described the scheduling as "not ideal" and said it "wasn't great" for either her or Kenin in terms of conditioning.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She brushes it off as a scheduling problem.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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