slot
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The only times available on the apps are either 5 p.m. or 10:30 p.m., or every possible slot is gone, even though you logged on at midnight, weeks in advance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
LA28 sold 4 million tickets in its first drop in April, and time slot notifications hit inboxes Wednesday and Thursday for Drop 2, which lasts from Aug. 10-20.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"The team contacted all people that booked a slot that morning by sending them an email and within four hours Arnie and her owner were reunited," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
On this valuable Saturday-morning time slot a couple of weeks before the primary, we were in a small flower shop in a pedestrian-unfriendly area with few, if any, walk-in customers to meet and greet.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Max slides the money into the slot, and the machine clinks and hums before it spits out a yellow card.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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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
I gave myself a five-purchase limit, leaving two slots open for surprise.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Plus, JetBlue nabs Spirit slots in New York, and airfares are still rising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Even though the rest of the horses are now in unfamiliar slots, they seem largely unperturbed, probably because we loaded them in the same order.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
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
His novels can be slotted into some mystery/thriller subcategories — “Blacktop Wasteland” is a heist novel, “Razorblade Tears” a revenge thriller, “All the Sinners Bleed” a police procedural.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Screws with a cross-shaped head were shown to outperform those with a slotted head because a cross-shaped driver “sticks” inside without slippage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
With Teller’s dawning realization that he might not be slotted in for the role of supreme authority at Livermore, his old habit of undermine-and-conquer returned.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
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
And the finish did not disappoint, with Van de Ven slotting the ball past goalkeeper Dominik Kotarski, before being mobbed by jubilant team-mates having scored one of the great Champions League goals.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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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