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Google now has 60 days to comply with the regulations - or challenge them by taking the Commission to court.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The biggest challenge has been persuading fishermen to stop catching one of their most valuable species.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna is remaking the company once again, only this time he views the fundamental challenge mostly as one of culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Days later, two transgender girls who were the first to challenge Trump’s executive order dropped their lawsuit in New Hampshire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Turing has taken the lead on that challenge.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Espinosa, a former foreign minister of Ecuador, has called the United Nations the only universal platform for handling humanity's common challenges, but also wants deeper reform of the world body.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The business comes with its own challenges: Developing the tech is expensive, getting the permits is complex and scaling to profitability is hard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The chef said the challenges facing hospitality cannot be solved by short-term measures alone and warned that without wider reform, more independent venues could disappear.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Voting early will give citizens time to clear up any challenges to their ID or their registration.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Despite our best endeavors, and we must face its challenges as they arise. The sooner you learn that”—our teacher shot a stare not at Gary Drake but straight at me—“the better.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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The newspaper had challenged the government requests for phone records of reporters and grand jury testimony as an attempt to "intimidate" the press and filed a motion to have them quashed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He also said the authenticity of the bite marks on the photo — which form a circular shape with an absence of bruising — could be challenged in court by an expert in tooth reconstruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Kalshi’s effort to launch perpetuals in the U.S. was challenged in a lawsuit last month by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Rapp challenged for the WBC women's featherweight championship in June, losing to Tiara Brown in Orlando, which left her with an 8-1-1 record.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
It challenged me and humbled me, lifted me up and shrank me down, sometimes all at once.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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“In businesses closer to the consumer, the pricing environment was more challenging, and there had been little adjustment of prices so far,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The bridge fallout comes against a backdrop of a challenging trade dispute with Canada and the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Flores, a lawyer challenging Gonzalez, is worth between $2.6 million and $11.4 million, owing to his ownership of a healthcare company and his wife’s trust.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
The outlet reported that the amicable split comes as “the distance between them and their busy schedules made it challenging to maintain their connection.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Although it may be challenging for teachers to find adaptive instruments to suit the individual needs of their students,” Sobol says, “the music market catalog offerings are expanding.”
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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