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Doncic especially went to work in the third quarter, scoring 20 points in that span in delivering the Lakers to a 124-118 win over the Portland Trail Blazers Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Heading into Friday’s trading, Tesla had erased more than $200 billion in market capitalization over a two-day span.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
And virtually no one has the patience or attention span to read an entire article anymore, let alone engage with its ideas.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Amazon on Thursday revealed the company was also spending more cash that it was making, and that spending had increased six-fold over the span of three months.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“The 500-foot span floated like a surfboard,” said duBeth.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Reports of the freezer tampering spanned the continent from Portugal to Estonia, hitting smaller independent retailers as well as big chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started airing in 1987 and spanned 178 episodes over seven seasons.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Patrick Stewart, the British actor whose 60-year career spanned the stage to the final frontier, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Ozzy and Sharon's relationship spanned more than 50 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Up ahead, every police craft in the city sat nose to stern, forming a barricade that spanned the entire width of the river.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
The district, spanning some 900 square miles, is the largest in the country, and the majority of its 200,000 students are low-income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Even as some populations maintained relatively stable genetic ancestry within their home regions, they could also participate in broader networks of genetic exchange spanning considerable distances.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Singer and Jonathan Pollock, the firm’s two chief executives and chief investment officers, run one of the hedge-fund industry’s largest pools of capital, deployed across strategies spanning activist campaigns, buyouts, distressed-debt investing and commodities trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
No10 North will share the city centre building with other government departments spanning business, education, local government and the Cabinet Office.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Our Navajo nets kept everything connected like a spider’s strands spanning distant branches.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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