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If you have a question for Dan, please email [email protected] with “MarketWatch Q&A” in the subject line.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Jacobs would be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000 and not more than nine months in jail if he is convicted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The assisted dying law would allow adults over the age of 18 who are expected to die within six months to be given help to end their own life, subject to certain safeguards.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
First, he writes, government and media “began to treat the subject much more seriously” in the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A Swanburne girl does not mope, as Penelope had been taught countless times, and so she tried her best to put the whole subject out of her mind and think of other, happier things.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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The drug, called Rasonque, helped subjects in a late-stage study live more than 13 months, nearly twice as long as those on chemotherapy alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Tennessee native rarely injected venom into her voice, even when singing about difficult subjects — but she does it here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The professor spends "a lot of time" in her class exploring Parton's politics - or "Dollitics", a phrase coined by the singer's nephew to describe her way of handling thorny subjects.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
To identify these changes, researchers studied nearly half a million brain cells collected from people with depression and control subjects shortly after each donor's death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Now, sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You’ll excoose me refoosin’ to talk of perfeshunal subjects afore meals.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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The IRS could also maintain a database of individuals convicted or subjected to sanctions for their activity in the nonprofit sector and have nonprofits affirm that they don’t employ anyone on the list.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Many people feel like they’ve been subjected to a bait-and-switch in supplemental benefits,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
In both environments, diamond is subjected to immense pressure.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Lord Woolley said issues of plagiarism were constant in academia and that a number of individuals, who had been accused of plagiarism had not been subjected to the attention Arday had received.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
But he knew how annoying it must be for the elder boy to be continually subjected to advice, and so he held his peace.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The team would put the players up in hotel rooms with two beds, subjecting Freeman to the incessant clicking of Heyward texting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
A judge earlier this month rejected Kalshi’s bid to block New York from subjecting it to its gambling laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Pyongyang withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993 and has since conducted six nuclear tests, subjecting it to multiple United Nations resolutions, and is believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Those doubling down, however, are subjecting themselves to public wrath.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
“Now if there were a cure,” Tam says, still pretty much shouting, “d’ye honestly think I’d be subjecting ye to all this here rubbish a-floating outta my brain?”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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