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Cardona holds only a small sliver of those companies, he said, and would prefer to put his dollars to work elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In parts of southern Meta and Guaviare, coca fields were replaced by lemon trees, banana crops and small livestock farms.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the future, a small blood sample could potentially be used to create a detailed risk profile covering several cardiovascular diseases at once.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Only a small proportion of the company's operated stores are unionised in the US and are represented by Starbucks Workers United.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Phineas is the foreman of a track construction gang that is in the process of blasting a railroad right-of-way through granite bedrock near the small town of Cavendish, Vermont.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
AI makes it easier to create businesses, too, and so may result in more companies, albeit with smaller workforces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Thursday’s fracture was on a steel pipe that forms the major arteries for water delivery from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution lines across Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Over recent decades, the oil supermajors like BP, Shell and TotalEnergies have been selling off their assets to smaller operators whose pockets are not as deep.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Complete skeletons are uncommon in the fossil record, so the researchers relied on much smaller clues: teeth and pieces of jaw.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Down below was a large creature that did not flee as I approached, and another, much smaller, swimming next to it—a baby.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
People who consumed the largest total amounts showed a more rapid decline in cognitive abilities than those who consumed the smallest amounts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading, after the company forecast revenue growth of 11.7%—its smallest year-on-year increase of any quarter since late 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to David Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
That’s the smallest reading in five and a half years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It also held a tiny paper with a message: another of Finn’s crooked hearts with the smallest of words written below, “Kids=safe.”
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
