schedule
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By offering a repayment schedule, your stepmother is gently — or not so gently — attempting to twist your arm by presenting this request almost as a fait accompli.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Gottlieb, who was known as “Mr. Basketball,” later became owner of the Warriors and spent decades drawing up the NBA schedule by hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He said Ethiopia and Russia agreed on the deal several years ago and the warplanes had come ahead of schedule.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The train is more than 30 years behind schedule and more than $100 billion beyond its original budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“What I mean is that apparently our schedule is different every day. How in the world are you supposed to plan for that?”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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He contrasts his freedom to improvise at Deitch with museums’ lengthy planning schedules: “Their shows are seven years out, sometimes. So there’s no room for spontaneity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
However, after participants switched to their assigned maintenance schedules, the groups no longer showed statistically significant differences in diastolic blood pressure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
A Postal Service spokesperson said the agency told election officials that RTO would change schedules and reemphasized the need for voters to get their ballots in the mail at least a week ahead of time.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Even during strong demand, deployment schedules can affect when suppliers record sales.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Or maybe I should have asked if they’d gotten their class schedules.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Elections are scheduled for 2028, but Tshisekedi has warned that fighting in the east could delay voting.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
O’Keefe and Higby are scheduled to appear in court Nov. 16.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
On Thursday, the Bank of Japan is scheduled to release the minutes of its September meeting, at which it raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.25% to keep persistent inflation in check.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Jury selection began on Wednesday, and opening statements are scheduled for November 4.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The next day there was no bull-fight scheduled.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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The WSJ Logistics Report writes that logistics companies and retailers are using technology to speed up the hiring process and flexible scheduling to bring on workers as needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The company generally sought to schedule children for either full-time or half-time therapy, which made it easier to coordinate treatment and staff scheduling, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
In a letter sent to members last week, the MCC chair Mark Nicholas warned "we should all be braced for the scheduling challenges" their pitch plans will bring.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Jill Ellis was the first U.S. coach to attack the idea of scheduling tougher opponents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Vanderbilt had hoped that scheduling his race for a Tuesday would keep attendance within Pimlico’s sixteen-thousand-seat capacity.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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