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Pitcher Tyler Glasnow runs into trouble early and the Dodgers fall short of a comeback in the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss to the Miami Marlins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The short duration of the VSC in this case was exactly why Norris was railing against the situation.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
His very first pass of the game was a short completion that his running back promptly gave away with a fumble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
As for why he couldn’t stick, Pride has a theory, one that goes back to the second of two short trials with the Red Sox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Another woman—white, with short dark hair capped by a green cloche— leaned against a worktable wedged into the other half of the room.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
It is seeking donations of good-quality, unbranded uniform items, including polo shirts, pinafores and PE shorts.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Bring shorts and a towel,” my host told me mysteriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I soon found myself clambering on hands and knees in my swim shorts into a dirt-floored dome made from sticks and blankets, and sitting cross-legged as red-hot volcanic stones were laid in a central pit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He’s flanked by fountain fireworks while a buff guitarist with a blond mullet and glittery spandex shorts wails on guitar to the tune of Lenny Kravitz’s cover of “American Woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Behind her stood a man in a white sweater and shorts.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
After the 2022 election, it took 37 days to form a government, much shorter than the 134 days it took to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Then there’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” which returned Thursday with a shorter fifth season.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
At the same frequency, phonons have much shorter wavelengths than light, making it possible to build considerably smaller components and pack them more tightly together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The 800m and shorter distances will have semi-finals.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The new sound wave is shorter, so its frequency is higher.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Lauer had given up more than three runs in just two other outings since the Dodgers acquired him from the Blue Jays in mid-May, and Tuesday marked his shortest start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
After adjusting for various risk factors, the study found that patients with private insurance faced the shortest wait times, and those on Medicaid experienced the longest—even longer than the uninsured.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"This was the shortest concert of my life," responded one, under Say Agency's Telegram post.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
A total of 56 people were given jail sentences -- including Xu's two sons -- with the shortest term one year and 10 months, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing short
Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 8-10
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