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Tesla could create separate office systems and bar China-based employees’ direct access to other company units, the person said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Earlier this month, a separate wildfire threatened KNDS’s ammunition plant at La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin in central France, forcing nearby residents to shelter indoors while firefighters prevented the blaze from reaching the site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, ServiceNow may sit in a separate class from the three other vendors Materne flagged.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The issue follows a separate incident on 24 July in which the PlayStation Network also suffered an outage for several hours.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I cannot separate out what happened to the boys that night from what has become of me.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
MarketWatch: What separates a bold investment from a reckless one?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Tour has fixed something in Paris: taking what used to be a mostly-dull pedal around the cobbles of the Champs-Élysées and adding a riotous, repeat ascent which separates the best riders from the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
NIRSpec separates infrared light into its component wavelengths, allowing scientists to determine how gas is moving, what it is made of, and how its properties vary across a region.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
What separates Dean from the U.K. pop-soul tradition she emerged from, though, is the simple fact that she has hits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is the number that separates the positive numbers from the negative numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Prison staff reportedly separated the two men and Combs was placed in solitary confinement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"There is also concern about families being separated."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Police separated the two groups, each made up of hundreds of protesters.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Austria and Algeria are separated by language, religion, history and the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Downtown consisted of two intersecting streets, Main Street and High Street, separated by a single flashing stoplight and no traffic.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Anger over soaring electricity bills is separating winning utility stocks from the losers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Roberts, who has also talked about separating the visit from politics, kept his review brief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The lesson is that hype and quality are not the same thing, and public markets have a way of separating them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
They showed fewer signs of separating or becoming unusually thick.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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