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
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
Before the game against Atletico Madrid, Iraola was asked about how he sought to strike the right balance, with the intensity levels he craves and such a busy schedule.
From BBC ● 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
“Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit us.”
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
She also schedules weekly one-on-ones with her direct reports and makes a point of not checking emails or doing anything else to divide her attention during those meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A lightning strike on air traffic control systems at Luton Airport has affected flight landings and schedules.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Whether that be by writing and debugging software, coordinating family’s schedules or picking a March Madness bracket, the bet is that autonomous AI will soon handle many of our everyday tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Why should he and the others interrupt their already full schedules to build temporary structures in a far-off city where they would have little control over the final product?
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Novo plans to provide an update on its new corporate strategy during an event with investors scheduled for Sept. 21.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Novo has scheduled an event with investors for Sept. 21, when it expects to provide an update on its new corporate strategy.
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
It wasn’t the scheduled time for one of the twice daily regular flights for people who lived in France or were tourists, so he assumed the planes were just normal ones outside in the sky.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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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
If USC had maintained its traditional rivalry scheduling with Notre Dame this season, they would have sold out the Coliseum on Thanksgiving Saturday instead of subjecting a sparse August crowd to possible heatstroke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
Through Paula, Tracy met Luma, who mentioned that she was looking for a coordinator for her soccer program, someone who could handle team logistics like travel and scheduling and be in charge of tutoring.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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