change
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Climate change, along with cyber-attacks, disease outbreaks and conflicts can all put a strain on the process that eventually gets food into our shops and homes.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
In the past, anyone proposing a change in our core curriculum would have to be steeled for a decadelong debate.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 20, 2026
It will not noticeably change the reading on a bathroom scale, and it would not affect how much peanut butter is required to produce a 16-ounce container.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
As I delved into the issue, I had to change staff around.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 20, 2026
“I’m not trying to change the subject,” she says.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
In June, Cuba approved a wide-ranging package of economic changes, which the U.S. dismissed.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
Law students educated in this way will be grounded in ethical and principled reasoning and adept at navigating an era when AI tools stand to shape changes in the practice of their profession.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 20, 2026
And someone needs to stand up and fight for the changes that can make it better.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 20, 2026
The changes were "long overdue" and would make a "significant difference" but focusing on prosecution alone would not be enough, he added.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
“I’m sorry there have been so many hard changes, Ida B. We did what we thought was best, given the circumstances.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Oil futures ended a frantic week little changed with prices easing back after a midweek rise to four-month highs on disruptions to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
Starting Sebastian Tounekti at Ibrox last week was an odd call and he changed it at half-time.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
Together, these observations suggest that BFA-related chemistry and kidney physiology may be widespread across Felidae, while also having changed and diversified over the course of feline evolution.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
What changed, slowly enough that nobody announced it, was the jar.
From Salon β Sep. 20, 2026
We changed cyclist and reader often as legs or voice grew tired, reading our way through histories, novels, plays.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Maybe what that means is that human creativity is changing, and that it’s much less dependent on idea generation, and much more dependent on idea selection and elaboration as the unique human skills.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
WSJ: Say you’re up for changing, but you’ve got a manager who seems stuck in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 21, 2026
If the surrounding geology had been responsible for changing their molecular composition, the two species would have been expected to produce similar temperature readings, Eagle said.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
Extreme weather may be changing the way we need to shop.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
Josie had time to remember changing Max’s name tag, all those years ago in kindergarten when she told him it’d be easier to go by “Max” than “Maximilian.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing change
"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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