shelf
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David Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University, explained the machine to the Associated Press: Freight contracts absorb the cost first, then contracts reprice, then the shelf gets the bill.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
A mirrored shelf procured at a Glassell Park estate sale for $80 hangs on the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bot-detection technology tends to have a short shelf life, says Cloudflare’s Becker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Fresh pasteurised milk, which has a shorter shelf life, had been more affected than the more long-life UHT milk, he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
I followed Grandpa into the store and watched while he reached up on a shelf and picked up an envelope.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Read: This type of annuity is ‘flying off the shelves.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Reeling from these two fat books, I pulled from the shelves Peter Ackroyd’s 1983 novel, “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde”—densely wrought, impressionistic and all wrapped up in about 180 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But Armitage is concerned that increasingly stormy seas could leave the islands cut off for extended periods - and the supermarket shelves empty.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some outlet glaciers in East Antarctica also remain vulnerable as warm ocean water melts ice shelves from below and contributes to faster ice flow.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Scoot crawled across the broken floor and over to a heap of shelves that were covered with sand.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
