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At Race Course, the wealth surrounding the settlements offered small but vital ways to earn money - dishes to wash, gardens to tend, discarded bottles to collect and sell.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Marek Mscichowski, a day trader who has a small position in Lumentum Holdings, is not a fan of the company’s deal with Marvell Technology.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
State officials and election experts have pointed to the small numbers of arrests, despite a sweeping probe to find such voters by Essayli and others, as proof such fraud is rare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Kimi Antonelli is Formula One world champion,” Italy’s sports daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport, wrote in small print on its front page on Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Valerie’s hand presses the small of my back.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The biggest is planning for a surviving spouse, who could face a smaller standard deduction, narrower tax brackets and higher Medicare premiums.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Instead of developing into full-sized planets, countless smaller bodies remained, preserving evidence of the solar system's earliest period of formation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Compared with the official gauge, the RatingDog survey covers more private and smaller companies that are more export-oriented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Next to that story is a smaller piece under the headline "King stands his ground on 'sorrow' for slavery".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
It was getting smaller and smaller in my chest and hardening up like a rock.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Even the smallest objects appear to have retained surface characteristics resembling those of their larger counterparts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Before adjusting for inflation, wages grew at a 3.1% pace over the past year ending in September, the smallest increase since the first quarter of 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
That understanding gives fresh insight into the passion he brought to his greatest starring roles and the smallest.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Brewers, whose only previous appearance in the World Series came in 1982, are based in Major League Baseball's smallest market and this year had the 19th highest payroll of its 30 teams.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The library was the smallest one I’d ever seen, and the community center wasn’t much bigger.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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