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“I’d like to stand on the rooftop so they could hear me in Massachusetts.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
He was one of two dissenters who voted against the BOJ’s interest-rate increase to 1.25% in September, before backing the decision to stand pat in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
But for a president supposedly facing his last stand, he has at times struck a surprisingly conciliatory tone.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
In a statement, the league said it did not stand in the way of the organizing efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The longer we stand there, the more people join and the louder the crowd becomes.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The artist Carole Feuerman stands beneath her sculpture, “The Golden Mean,” inspired by Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Given that the secondary stroke prevention market represents a 5 billion-euro opportunity, the potential for Bayer’s drug stands at 2 billion euros, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
The name stands for “covarying coupling constants plus tired light.”
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
That is where corporate America stands with aging right now.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Aunt Melissa stands, smoothing her blue and red checked dress.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
A twin version of this sculpture — “The Golden Mean,” by Carole Feuerman — stood in front of the Eiffel Tower for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Six years before Chad Green fell ill, in 1971, Richard Nixon stood before Congress and declared a “war on cancer.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Passengers stood in lines of four while staff scanned boarding cards to verify every person on the ship, the Mail reported.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Recreational football and handball stood out in particular.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
The two stood side by side, the badger and the fox, the fox and the badger, hushed by the magnificence.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The Republican Guard, part of the French gendarmerie, are responsible for guards of honour in France which often involve standing for long periods in heavy clothing while holding their sword upwards vertically.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
“Whenever you start hearing the word transitory, the hair on your neck should be standing up a little bit,” Goolsbee said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
When I spoke to Diana, she said that back then she was standing up for parents’ rights, demanding “freedom of choice for things that don’t have definite outcomes.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
But, living there comes at a cost, with the average asking price for a home in the borough standing at more than £1m.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
He wrote his last book, a study of sacrifice in the Old Testament, standing, because the pain of his illness would not allow him to sit at a desk.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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