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[streek] / strik /




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So far this month, downtown is on a three-day streak of temperatures 100 degrees or higher and could hit a fourth, according to the weather service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

If the mercury hits 100 degrees on Monday, “that’ll be the longest streak of 100 or higher days in October that we’ve seen for the period of record for that site,” Schoenfeld said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

"I'm on a four-win streak so that makes sense."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The policy-sensitive two-year snapped a three-day losing streak, rising 0.037 percentage point to 4.823%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There’s a jagged streak of black, burnt wood and ash-filled land.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

As tiny particles from the comet enter the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, they heat up and produce streaks of light across the night sky that we see as meteors.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

By the end, I was dragging pieces of focaccia through the last orange streaks left in the pan.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Romina, the more rebellious of the two, had bleached streaks in her long, dark hair, which she would often leave uncovered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The darker streaks contain surface dust and rocks that have been altered over long periods by solar wind, galactic cosmic rays, and impacts from micrometeorites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

On the ground, huddling beneath ponchos blocking out ash, thin streaks of light, we hold on to each other and breathe.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Every visitor must exit through the Blood Room, a gruesomely immersive space whose walls are streaked, smeared, splattered and practically dripping with the red stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A meteor streaked across the New York City area in broad daylight on July 16, 2024, producing a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

A group of more than 100 people near the stage refused to leave, chanting "USA! USA! USA!" while a pair of B2 bombers that were part of an hours-long military flyover show streaked overhead.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

While these are in many respects traditional songs, this is music that hits you on a subliminal level, where a series of major traumas and minor victories fuse into a bleak worldview streaked with hope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

She threw her hat off in frustration, her face red and streaked with tears.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Every night around the world, thousands of automated sky cameras watch for flashes of light streaking across the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

ET on Wednesday, leaving plumes streaking across the sky as its boosters and engines fired away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

In a little over 50 minutes on the pitch, Earl was England's second-highest metre-maker, racking up 77m and streaking in from distance for the game's opening try.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025

Though he yielded only one hit, the recently streaking right-hander fell back into a bad habit of being “too fine,” as manager Dave Roberts described it, with his command.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

Bien controlled the ball, and tapped a pass to a streaking Idwar Dikori, who got the ball into the net.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John




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