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Wisley in Surrey has now experienced 31 dry days, and for a large area of central England, it has been the longest dry spell in 30 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The slightly cooler spell may be very brief for some parts of southern England and south Wales, where we could see heatwave criteria being reached again later this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
This year, there isn’t a drop of rain in sight as an unusually warm and dry spell drags on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
That would break the spell Miyazaki weaves in every frame leading up to that moment.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
He polished one off in two bites, and then sat up a little further, glad that the dizzy spell was already ebbing.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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But Scatchard was spelled incorrectly, and her search failed.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
An earlier version of this article incorrectly spelled his first name as Luis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Mary Ziegler, a professor at the UC Davis School of Law and an expert on American parental rights laws, said the ruling was “arguably significantly more extensive than the Supreme Court has spelled out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Ten kilometres away, Edzel Baylon, a staffer at the Isla Jardin del Mar resort, bemoaned a newly changed landscape that spelled trouble for a destination that touted a white sand beach holiday experience.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
“I won’t have my baby so far away with her head looking a mess. I spelled them with your favorite styles. You remember how to work them? Their waking song?”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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A Welsh news site says Andy Burnham provided an "error-filled" article for publication spelling out his pitch to Wales.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
One note: We have changed some capitalization, spelling and punctuation; no need to make this even harder than it is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Children across the United States have participated in spelling bees with the hopes of making it to the national contest since 1925, according to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The Velvet Gang practices FFF: Fashion-Forward Filanthropy — an intentional spelling mistake, or “branding,” as Mariah calls it.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Took him until second grade to realize he was spelling Mississippi.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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Although not spelt out precisely during the interview, the implication of Block’s trade rationale is that higher unemployment means economic weakness and this would in turn lead to deteriorating corporate financials.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The exit poll also spelt bad news for the GreenLeft-Labour party of former European Commissioner Frans Timmermans, who had long been second in the polls and is now set to come fourth.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
A truck carrying Hatton's yellow three-wheeler car was at the head of the funeral procession, with the name "Ricky" spelt out in flowers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Wilband presented him with a forged document which contained obvious errors, including the word "father" spelt "farther".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
Okay, this had never been spelt out exactly, but it was definitely, as I say, an understanding, and until the afternoon of the Daniel Deronda business, neither of us had come anywhere near breaching it.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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