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"This formation is beautiful, but temporary, and has a limited life span," the park service said in 2021.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
They’re claiming it can improve attention span, mood and memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Passengers described rushing the cockpit after the plane suddenly plummeted, losing around 17,000 feet of altitude in the span of a minute, according to the Flightradar24 website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The 72 systems span different stages of planetary development.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
“The 500-foot span floated like a surfboard,” said duBeth.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“My service has spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations. I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalties,” he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
He describes Casablancas and Co. as the last in a lineage of quintets that, collectively, have spanned five decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
She went on to enjoy a lengthy career that spanned TV, radio and film and was perhaps best known for playing Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama Tenko.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
We will specifically consider the use of fire for agriculture and game management, and the creation of roadways that spanned the continent.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
I’ve been laid off multiple times in my short career and I have lost faith that the traditional career spanning decades at one company even exists anymore.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Discovery, creating a Hollywood empire spanning television, news and cinema.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Roughly spanning today’s Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, the Central European theater stood on the grave of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitioned between Austria, Prussia and Russia in the late 18th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He worked as a broadcaster in a career spanning more than two decades, including in neighbouring Rwanda and at home, with the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Pop Pop gave me my very first “Darlene” eight years ago and a brand-new one every year after that—custom-made of pressed, dried wildflowers spanning every color of the rainbow.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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