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The home’s environmentally friendly features continue outside, where solar panels help power the property and an edible landscape offers a variety of homegrown produce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Savings from moving production and operations to a more business friendly state could help offset those costs, the person familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
But no one needed reminding that Newcastle United head coach Matthias Jaissle might not be quite so friendly in the coming weeks and months.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
With a smile he engaged us—gracious, friendly, and inspirational.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
She turned back to the boy, and when she spoke, her tone was markedly less friendly than it had been with Dickie McGinity.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Lewis-Skelly has been one of the standout performers during pre-season and has started the past two friendlies as the Gunners prepare for the Community Shield against Manchester City on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Shea can play in the Premier League, there's no doubt about that," said Charles' international boss before June's friendlies with Guinea and France.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He has impressed in all four of Spurs' friendlies so far.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Behind-closed-doors friendlies against Crawley Town on Saturday and Bromley next Thursday, before they fly for their overseas pre-season tour next Friday.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Who are the friendlies ahead of us?” he asked.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
He also supports a friendlier approach to relations with Beijing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Here the surroundings are less bleak, the library better, the prisoners friendlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
The longer-term math is friendlier: Against 2029 earnings, Humana trades at roughly 12 times, a more reasonable bet on what the business will look like once the recovery has played out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Calluses formed on my fingertips, my eye grew skilled at selecting friendlier fabrics to piece into the same block, and my neck is now accustomed to hunching over my work.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
The friendliest U.S. cities, according to World Cup tourists.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Decades of retelling this story means "kindliest" has now turned into "friendliest".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Now it’s Alcaraz who has closed the gap, on Sinner’s friendliest terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2025
Your executive producer on "Watson" said that it would be fun to cast the friendliest man in the world in this role.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
And so Aru fixed Mini with what she hoped was her friendliest, most blinding smile.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
