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Her bar is directly across the street from the field where the data center is supposed to go, and she wants her staff comfortable with 6 a.m. shifts if the construction crews start showing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tyler Glasnow is scheduled to make one more minor-league start, consisting of five innings and 75 pitches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Bennett, a fourth-year pro making his seventh preseason start, completed four of six passes for 38 yards and led a field-goal drive before giving way to Simpson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Following relegation in May, West Ham start their first Championship season since 2012 with a trip to Burnley on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I made an early start to split kindling against the day we put up the school stove.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
He has yielded 11 home runs in his past four starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
As is now tradition, The Hundred reaches its conclusion just as the new football season starts and exhausted parents try to tough out the end of the summer holidays.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
BBC Sport understands organisers are considering a tribute to Tarling at the men's Tour of Britain, which starts on 2 September.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes is experiencing a precipitous drop in fastball velocity and has struggled over his past 10 starts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Simulation starts in five,” Mom told me, moving to sit beside Treebaun.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
He grew up here and attended the University of Kentucky, but when he married and started raising a family, he had to drive 90 minutes to Cincinnati for work at Procter & Gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Trost started at right tackle, but he left after two series because of a hamstring injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
After she started at the University of East Anglia, Pia Subong, 21, says she realised that biochemistry wasn't the right course for her and so switched to film and English.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The election commission started releasing constituency results late Friday, pledging the final outcome would be made public by Monday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
And with a baleful glance at the big brown hat, she picked up the little fur one and started after Betsie round the stairs down to breakfast.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"The starting point in the UK is that all these acts of copying - creating the training library and doing the training – require the permission of the copyright owner," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In China, a huge bulge of working-age people helped amplify sweeping economic reforms that turbocharged its economy starting in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
That’s enough dogs to form a starting offensive line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Putting out his cigarette before starting the evening service, he sighed: "I think we'll be without water for at least another two months."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
By the time I’m finished it’s after five o’clock in the morning and it must be starting to get the smallest bit light outside.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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