straight
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That Premiership-winning streak has been extended to 13 games following six straight victories to start the campaign, but concerns about performance level remain.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
After two straight years of increases, the telecast of the 78th Emmy Awards on Sunday slid 10% to 6.7 million viewers on NBC, according to Nielsen data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Manufacturing trade weakened in July, with sales falling 0.4% from a month earlier following five straight months of rising activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Oracle’s stock has been known to move in step with the ups and downs of OpenAI’s news cycle — and that drove it to its fifth straight drop on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
He delivered it straight into the classroom and stayed on to see what was in it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Martin Palafox, the second unit director on “Juiced” and one of the straighter shooters in “O.J. Unseen,” says, “I took the show because I needed to eat.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Officers "stood up faster and straighter when he entered a room" and Zhang "wasn't afraid to talk to foreigners", Thompson wrote in a Substack post about his encounter.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Officials said the girl appeared to be wearing a wig with darker and straighter hair than her natural hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
He improved the more he bowled, a fuller length and straighter line to better the five-wicket haul he took in this ground against West Indies last year.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
But he was sitting up straighter and kicking his heels.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
England's plan to Gill was clear after his success at Headingley: their lines were the straightest they have bowled at a batter in 16 years as the pace bowlers targeted the pads.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
It wasn’t the straightest path and there were times when Crawford and the Mariners wondered if he’d ever grow into all that was expected.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Never the straightest driver, Walker has so far kept his ball in play at tight, tree-lined Harbour Town and made enough putts to move in front.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Curly, played by Sean Grandillo with the guitar-slinging aplomb of a country-and-western recording star, has the straightest of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
And the handsomest, with the darkest black hair and straightest black eyebrows.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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