spend
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Almost half of those in post said they were considering leaving teaching in the next five years, while one in ten were planning to spend less than a year in the job.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Many species spend most of their lives beneath the leaf litter, and even when they emerge they can look deceptively similar," he added.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at age 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
SpaceX plans to spend tons of money on chips and recently announced it will only buy Nvidia’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I thought of all those lovely dollars she could peel off and spend at the store.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Now, she spends her days working as a special assistant to Trump, a man she has described, in highly personal letters, as her “guardian and protector.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Don’t miss: My aunt barely spends any money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
That Girl Mom currently spends about 20 hours a week watching Owens’ episodes, doing her own research and then filming the recap videos.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
He has now quit all prescription medication, and spends his time on social media urging others not to start.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even with recent improvements, infant mortality rates continue to be an embarrassment for a nation that spends more on health care than any other country in the world.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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She lived with partisans in the nearby forest for months, spent years with her husband in an Italian refugee camp and arrived in the United States in 1949 to start life over again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Grealish has prioritised a return to Everton, where he spent last season on loan, over the option of rejoining his boyhood club Aston Villa, who have also expressed an interest.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The man, aged in his 50s and not named, said he spent an hour and a half in the water before being rescued.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Physicists have spent decades searching for a theory of "quantum gravity" that could combine them into one consistent description of nature.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Carville resident Stanley Stein, who has spent years raising awareness and advocating on behalf of those with leprosy, is thrilled with the publicity, and Joey is a powerful spokeswoman.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Chalk the good times up to a confluence of fortunate events: red-hot artificial-intelligence spending, federal spending and the windfall companies are getting in the form of refunds of some of their past tariff payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Certain species are extremely round and resemble the rain frogs found in mainland Africa, spending much of their time concealed beneath the forest floor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Take poor Daffy Duck, living up to his namesake, spending his days painting watercolors in the pleasant confines of a cartoon asylum.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
In this era of tight French budgets, the clamor in much of the country now is for spending to expand the ranks of firefighters and buy more equipment — aircraft, trucks, whatever it takes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Kevin is out spending his birthday money," she said.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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