select
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They'll select an overall winner during the prize ceremony at Newcastle's Utilita Arena on 22 October.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The group had to put "more than 50,000" different parts back into production and "select new suppliers because the previous suppliers no longer existed," Cote said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Stock held by Musk and select other insiders, which together account for over 63% of pre-IPO outstanding shares, is subject to a longer lockup.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Here’s what they came up with: It started with each Maine county holding its own convention, open to all registered Democrats, to select delegates to this weekend’s state convention.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
He nudges his lunch box toward me, and I select one of the pale spheres nestled in there.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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Overprescribing antibiotics leads to deadly resistant bacteria, while industrial fishing, which harvests the largest adults, ultimately selects for ever-smaller fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Pinterest showed off a new tool that automatically selects the ad most likely to perform best, while TikTok played matchmaker for brands and creators and debuted tools to generate ads on the fly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
The most recent winner at Augusta selects the menu for other past champions at an occasion which takes place in the clubhouse on the Tuesday evening of Masters week.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
María selects some music from an old jukebox in the corner while my mom and Charlie take seats on one of the high tables in the middle of the room.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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The shortlisted albums are selected by a panel of 12 jurists, including 6 Music broadcaster Afrodeutsche, musician Jamie Cullum, and The Times' music critic Will Hodgkinson.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The department also selected NextEra Energy to build and own dedicated generation resources to power the campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The France international, who was not selected for his country's World Cup squad, could be under scrutiny as the club look to reduce the size of their squad.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
They have four adult children Lauren, Hunter, Colton and Kaeden, a former Texas A&M star who was selected in the third round of the 2025 MLB draft by the New York Yankees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Pentagon planners had selected more than a thousand priority targets in the Soviet Union, as well as Eastern Europe and communist China, mainly military bases and cities.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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It also reveals that early humans in Britain were carefully selecting rare materials and using them to produce and maintain highly refined tools hundreds of thousands of years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
“More filmmakers than ever are selecting Imax,” Gelfond said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Once studios couldn’t count on a second bump of revenue beyond the box office, they began selecting safer films based on pre-existing properties that were guaranteed to get people into movie theaters.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Users can opt out by going to settings, selecting “sharing and reuse” and turning off the option that allows others to create with and reuse their content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Mawuli was sitting cross-legged in the corner, playing with a box of nails under the guise of selecting them for Togbe.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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