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spring

[spring] / sprɪŋ /








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Hydee Feldstein Soto, who lost her seat in a historic primary rout this spring, new polling shows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The 29-year-old also won a string of one-day classics in the spring, including the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ben Rosen saw the future in the spring of 1979.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Nor'easters can occur throughout the year but are more frequent between fall and early spring.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sitting high on the spring seat with my grandpa and my lop-eared hound, no boy could have been happier.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Once inserted, the springs remain in place for several weeks to months, gradually reshaping the skull before being removed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

In a will, this is typically set up as what’s called a testamentary trust, which is a trust that springs out of a will.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Happily, you can find her without much trouble in the deep streaming library, where she springs, for the foreseeable digital future, eternal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

"The Smyrnaeans have the river Meles, with its lovely water, and at its springs is the grotto, where they say Homer composed his poems," wrote the 2nd-century Greek chronicler and geographer Pausanias.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was one of the things a man learned gradually, but after forty years of springs and runs and carrying buckets and keeping fires, he knew whether the syrup was right or wasn’t.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

More than a dozen new outposts sprang up almost overnight, settlers said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

She sprang from Zeus’ skull fully formed; her embryonic development reduced to a male deity’s headache.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bystanders – including Craig Bowe, who made three rescue attempts – sprang into action as the tragedy unfolded, administering CPR to the Rahmans.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Araki sprang out of the New Queer Cinema of the ’90s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

I sprang into the teahouse and screamed, “The smith’s girl has broken my heart, by God. I am a dying phoenix! Drowned in my own tears!”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

His generosity is so well known, in fact, that an industry of lobbyists, lawyers and other insiders has reportedly sprung up to facilitate clemency for wealthy criminals.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The contact lens maker just sprung a surprise no one saw coming.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The series has sprung, somewhat unusually, from Davidson’s guest role in a 33-year-old two-episode arc on Martin Lawrence’s Fox sitcom, “Martin.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Since then, data centers have sprung up across Texas.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

And yet even so, holy and awesome though they were, they kept the mark of what they had sprung from.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

While a cheaper, older device is tempting, springing for a more recent generation will give you more years of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The movement has spread beyond the capital, with smaller demonstrations springing up Wednesday in major cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru and Patna.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

But the more unavailable your manager is, the less likely they will be looking for you — or springing a last-minute assignment on you.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The field is more crowded now, with Bowlero, Top Golf, and other eat-and-play concepts springing up in many of the same areas.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

She felt the meridians of energy springing back like strings snapping into position; it made her skin feel red, chapped, as though she had been scoured by a dry wind.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo




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