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In Maine, Democrats last week announced a July 25 convention where 601 county delegates and state party members will select a nominee to replace Platner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Airbnb proved to be a popular alternative to traditional hotels, with offers like the World Cup bundle, which included free World Cup tickets with select Airbnb stays at an average price of $365 per night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

A select group of colleges is making it easier to apply—but probably harder to get in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

On Wednesday night, the state party announced it will select a new nominee at convention held sometime in the next two weeks, where reportedly hundreds of delegates would choose Platner's replacement.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The show — loosely based on the game Mafia — selects celebrities to be faithfuls and traitors, and the faithful must attempt to discover the traitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

Demissie selects the type of incident - a crime, a traffic report or a general concern - enters the details and presses a button to submit the comment.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

A system that contradicts itself is less reliable, so self-improvement selects against contradiction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

AFP Sport selects five outstanding individual performances during the group stage.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Jenna finally selects a Peppermint Patty, and we head back to the counter to pay for the candy.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Hernandez, the first high school pitcher selected last year, played at Corona High, about 20 miles from Angel Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

President Masoud Pezeshkian is a functionary, selected in haste in 2024 to replace Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed into a mountain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

When a new experience occurs, only a small number of these cells are selected to store it.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

When Tuchel selected his World Cup squad, it was clear that he had a specific style of play in mind.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

At age twelve, Jungvolk members who held exemplary Party Record Books and who displayed outstanding leadership qualities were selected to attend one of three types of elite schools established by the Nazis.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

These included finishing up a four-year strategic plan and selecting administrators to fill key senior positions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Again, these calculations rely on selecting a method and statistical judgment.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

"These results suggest that weedkillers -- which, unlike antibiotics, are widely applied in agricultural environments -- may have the unintended side-effect of selecting for AMR among bacterial communities within the soil."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

You couldn’t ask for a better example of the nature of fictitious capital and the kind of person it’s selecting for.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Did you read over the company’s brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they’re using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick