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He also said the authenticity of the bite marks on the photo — which form a circular shape with an absence of bruising — could be challenged in court by an expert in tooth reconstruction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The hapless sunfish can weigh up to 2,000 kilograms and is distinct for both its size and peculiar shape featuring a flattened body and fins.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The drone war in Ukraine took shape in 2023 with the mass adoption of first-person-view drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, so Renaissance thinking went, were the cultural ancestors of the “West,” an imagined cultural space then beginning to take shape.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

He’d spent months gathering different varieties—every shape and color—then fenced off the area with sticks and draped the posts in moss.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Don’t miss out on the shapes the lightning paints the clouds with because you’re too busy swimming in puddles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The move comes as new Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso shapes his squad before the new Premier League season.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

“Cutting sandwiches into star shapes? That was never it for me,” she told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

After local media reported the removal of several statues, government spokeswoman Khaing Khaing Soe said earlier this month that only those with "incorrect proportions and shapes are being systematically reviewed and addressed".

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

And there were odd shapes on the sidewalk between the buildings—was it just end-of-the-school-year garbage that hadn’t been picked up yet?

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Reilly’s relationship with Eugene Boyle, a Bay Area Catholic priest and liberal activist known for supporting the Civil Rights Movement, shaped his political views.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We are trying to address that women are not small men - they're shaped differently."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Together, these patterns offer a rare view of how family relationships may have shaped authority, inheritance, and social rank within the settlement.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

A robot assembly line packs nitrocellulose with the texture of toothpaste into cylinders shaped like large toilet-paper rolls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

There was a massive gash-like opening that was shaped like a frown on the roof.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The pace of reconstruction will "be a decisive factor in shaping the country's economic recovery and social outcomes," the World Bank said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

If those rains linger, however, that could also affect what is shaping up to be a battle of the ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

This year is already shaping up to be an extraordinary one for weather records in the UK, having broken those for monthly temperature in both May and June by more than two degrees.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

The data at 1230 GMT and Warsh’s testimony at 1400 GMT will be key for shaping monetary policy expectations, Jefferies economist Mohit Kumar said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Lavoisier, unlike Sprat, speaks our language because he was living through a revolution which transformed the language of politics, shaping the language we still speak.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton