spate
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More than a dozen flights have been affected Thursday, marking a second day of disruption this week after a similar spate of hoax threats affected seven flights Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Companies across Europe are on heightened alert after a spate of suspected hacks of supermarket fridges and freezers in recent days caused chaos.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Also, the average response time to repair a streetlight outage rose to 224 working days from 31 over the same period, amid a spate of copper-wire theft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
The west coast of the Black Sea has recently seen a spate of drone attacks, and reports from nearby ships say the tanker was hit by two drones.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
She tells me about meeting August—she was seventeen, and it had just dawned on her that the recent spate of bachelors joining her family for dinner were actually being presented as potential husbands.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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