slot
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Elsewhere, the paper's picture slot shows huge crowds gathered in London to pay tribute to former Cambridge professor Jason Arday who was found dead last week.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
They reserved a slot, which included a photographer, storage locker and two drink tickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Every exercise machine in the gym had a slot to connect your iPod directly to a personalized sound system.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
For a moment, Taylor Detector is an exceptionally boring slot machine.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The $64,000 Question was so popular that even President Eisenhower watched it every week, telling his staff not to disturb him during its time slot.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Tickets for the Paralympics will also go on sale in 2027, beginning with a lottery for assigned time slots, similar to the first Olympic ticket drops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But once followers get a handle on things and get one month ahead, the answers sort of become slots on a change-sorting machine.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dropping below that begins to reduce the number of ESC slots available.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some percentage of slots would be reserved for people with special talents and skills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The tubes were tucked into individual slots inside small canvas pouches hand-sewn by a local Baltimore woman.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Luz Mary Gonzalez, a teacher, sat on the ground with a dozen more volunteers, writing messages of solidarity to be slotted into donation boxes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Phillies slotted him in at cleanup Tuesday, where he scored a run and drove in two more in a 5-0 win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the past, studios have plucked influencers from their online niche and slotted them into whatever mainstream production needed a face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The ecosystem does not wait for evidence; it constructs a narrative framework into which evidence, if it ever appears, can be slotted later.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Butler set the camera rolling again, while Artemis slotted down one filter after another.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Paul went on his podcast armed with a whiteboard, slotting James into various imaginary lineups around the NBA—Minnesota, Denver, and Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s an admirable acknowledgement of those behind the scenes, slotting film reels into the Dryden’s 75-year-old projectors, summoning shimmering worlds before our eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
That means it will not just be case of teams slotting into Group A, and then Group B, and then Group C in order as they are drawn.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
The Manchester United midfielder continued where he left off after the break, slotting home his second after being fed by Ramos.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
A little apart from them, an old woman was heading arrows: slotting needle-fine flakes of flint into the shafts, then gluing them in place with a paste of pine.blood and beeswax.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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