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So up to 50% or as much as 85% of your Social Security benefits may be subject to federal income tax.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Their subject matter, composition and paint handling revealed an utterly original visual sensibility, an almost obsessively focused individuality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Come to think of it, a two-hour briefing on just that subject wouldn’t have been enough to explain that insanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Perimenopause’s journey from little-understood phase before menopause to the subject of every ad on social media for women of a certain age was quick—and impossible to imagine without the internet.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
There was an unspoken rule in the Masters household: The deaths of his mother and sister were not to be talked about, because the subject opened sores that hurt for days.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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This inaugural exhibition focuses on how contemporary design is moving away from industrial concerns toward more spiritual subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Using MEG, the researchers recorded brain activity in all 263 participants with depression and the 75 healthy control subjects.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
The directors said living under the same roof as the documentary subjects created tensions and even saw Evans, who hasn't seen the film, try to exert control over production.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The show was frank in its portrayal of, among other subjects, social isolation, economic disparity, the immigrant experience and unconventional families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They did not quite know what to say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge; so they had to keep on neutral subjects.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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“Officials are routinely subjected to highly charged interactions and, at times, verbal abuse from players and coaches,” Green said in the association’s news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The maneuver subjected the airframe to an estimated 3 Gs of force, akin to what a spacecraft experiences during launch, and exceeded the 737 MAX’s operating limit of 2.5 Gs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
They have lived by hunting, fishing and reindeer herding for thousands of years, and been subjected to colonisation for centuries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Pyrobitumen is an insoluble form of organic carbon that develops when buried crude oil or kerogen -- a source material for natural gas -- is subjected to intense heating deep below the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
As Saidy later related, the house was subjected to an unending media barrage.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Under the new regime, visa holders who need more time will have to file formal applications with the federal government, subjecting themselves to additional background checks, biometric vetting, and other bureaucratic hurdles.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
If USC had maintained its traditional rivalry scheduling with Notre Dame this season, they would have sold out the Coliseum on Thanksgiving Saturday instead of subjecting a sparse August crowd to possible heatstroke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
By subjecting it to the economist’s favorite trick: regression analysis.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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