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In satellite images nor'easters can look strikingly like a hurricane, with spiraling clouds forming over the ocean that span hundreds of miles of coastline.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Acts can span from bluegrass to blues, folk to funk, salsa to soul, and everything in between.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Since October of last season, according to Stats Perform, Chambliss has led five game-winning drives in the fourth quarter—the most of any player in major-conference college football over that span.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Upon Lozano’s death in 1953, Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. became publisher of the paper, continuing a family legacy that would span three generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The divers would hope to find the child within sixty minutes, a time span known as the golden hour.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
In 2023, Ken Salazar, then the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said there were at least 200 tunnels that spanned the border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The few hundred in attendance spanned the full spectrum of AfD voters: young men in black bomber jackets and Lonsdale sweaters, elderly couples, barefooted hippies with braided beards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Parton’s solo career spanned equally divisive times, launching at the height of the Vietnam War and carrying on for everything that came afterwards.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
It's something she'd had to do many times over a career that spanned decades and genres.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But its eight-hundred-year existence spanned one of the most exciting times in American history.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The Met Office's latest three-month outlook, spanning October to December, suggests higher-than-normal chances of a mild autumn and start to winter.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Navy in August issued a $23 billion order spanning seven years for new Tomahawk missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
As a legal scholar researching the evolution of modern presidential clemency, I have reviewed every individual pardon and commutation granted by U.S. presidents since 1989, spanning seven administrations, from George H.W.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
As California’s wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
They flew under the bridge spanning the gorge west of Dona Luz, the road that crossed it heading toward Ojo Prieto and points beyond.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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