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Toward the European galleries, paintings proliferate in the show, inevitably the most visually glamorous section.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Plus, there’s a fresh new section of quick hits at the end.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
Thursday's news conference was held inside Saturday's fight venue, with one section of T-Mobile Arena curtained off for the crowd.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Someone in the comments section tagged Thompson, who also works as a paleontology adviser for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I’ll have to remember that. I’m talking about the girl in the magazine section, in the purple shirt, and the boy in the tax section, reading Your Guide to the IRS upside down.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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As those sections of crust descended, they released their water into the mantle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Social media platforms are littered with cheering sections gleefully anticipating mass unemployment in creative industries.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Mothers have described being left to recover from caesarean sections with "no support" as the number of babies being born via caesarean reaches its highest rate on record.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
AFP reporters flying by helicopter over the valley of destruction on Thursday saw entire sections of settlements swept away, leaving the landscape resembling a puzzle with pieces missing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
But composers often add some notes or even whole sections of music that are from a different key, to make the music a little more complex and interesting.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia before he fatally attacked Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in June 2023, was previously sectioned by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The house was purchased for $1 from the developer, sectioned and transported on flatbed trucks to Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
If you want frozen garlic — already sectioned and ready-to-use — Trader Joe’s carries the Dorot brand of frozen crushed garlic cubes.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
A small, makeshift rink sectioned off by barricades was stationed in the corner, and the glam bar was closed down by the second day of the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He sectioned the orange and divided the plugs between them.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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The speech is expected to include a draft law which will reportedly aim to improve care for people with learning difficulties, and change rules on sectioning people.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
Compared to their previous microscope design with a fixed light sheet, the new system quadrupled the field of view and doubled the optical sectioning ability without compromising volumetric imaging speed.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
“It is also equipped with manipulating arms which could be used to extricate the sub, such as by sectioning cables or things that would be blocking it at the bottom.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Johnson began by teaching the kids some basic techniques, like parting and sectioning hair, and by introducing them to the tools of the trade.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Ella removed her scarf and a perfect replica of her mother's beautiful brown hands darted straight to her thick hair, sectioning and combing through her zigzag curls.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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