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Points junkies say they are playing by the rules, but card agreements give issuers broad discretion to seize rewards and shut down accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

In Paris, where many shops had boarded up windows to prevent looting, and the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay museums shut for the day, the main demonstration passed off largely peacefully.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

“After that, I couldn’t get him to shut up. Great guy, great player and I miss him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Debt investors in the airline industry have been on guard since Spirit Airlines, a competitor to JetBlue, shut down operations earlier this year following repeat bankruptcy filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Reaching my bureau, I peer into the mirror and then squeeze my eyes tightly shut.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He never shuts up on the court, but he’s a man of few words off of it, low-key and community-minded and in the top 1% of patient autograph-givers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Evans shuts down Fielder’s line of questioning when he asks one of Evans’s collaborators about Theranos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In healthy immune cells, BCL6 attaches to DNA and temporarily shuts down genes that would normally stop cell growth or initiate cell death.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Misuse of therapy speak, or the casual use of clinical psychology terms, is a pervasive problem, and one that therapists note actually shuts down communication, as opposed to improving it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

If you keep losing heat, the brain shuts down blood circulation over a larger and larger area of your skin.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

For example, take Anthropic’s policy of shutting down abusive conversations, which appeals to machine-welfare advocates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

A former Greek-lifer makes the case for shutting the whole system down.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

The El Niño has also affected transit, temporarily shutting down the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner along the San Clemente coastline last month during high tides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"This suggests that this compound can selectively dampen escalated social conflict rather than shutting down behavior altogether."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

As the brain detects a fall in blood temperature, it automatically protects itself by shutting down the blood supply to the hands and feet.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman