sweep
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Plans for deep-sea mining exploration are most advanced for a vast sweep of ocean near American Samoa, a US territory nestled between New Zealand and Hawaii in the South Pacific.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
As overlapping food-safety concerns continue to sweep up restaurant chains this summer, Sweetgreen on Thursday became the latest to put numbers on the impact.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
On Aug. 12, the path of a total solar eclipse will sweep across northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Dodgers dropped the series to the Red Sox, needing a win Sunday to avoid a sweep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
An icy wind seemed to sweep her, though the stove glowed and you couldn’t see your breath even here on the back row.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
As this bubble grows, it sweeps outward and destroys dust in its path.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
In its sports division, Disney saw a bigger operating profit decline than it previously forecast due to four-game sweeps in the NBA basketball playoffs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
It did see a big 17% operating-profit drop in its sports segment, due to early-round sweeps in the NBA playoffs and a network-carriage dispute.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
A churro cart vendor who had operated in South Los Angeles for more than a decade stopped vending altogether for six weeks at the peak of the roving sweeps, losing an estimated $5,000 in income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The gray bigfoot sweeps into an elaborate bow.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Europe has been swept by weeks of devastating wildfires fuelled by dry conditions and a historically hot summer, with France, Greece, Portugal and Spain also battling major blazes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Videos on social media show cars submerged in Geoje as strong currents swept the streets.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The January 2025 wildfires that swept through Pacific Palisades wreaked devastation practically beyond belief, destroying more than 5,600 homes and businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
She frowned at it as the dial swept in a full circle and came to rest.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The Department of Justice said the hackers were part of an alleged "sweeping, state-sponsored" effort to steal data.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The retailer has been refreshing its product assortment, lowering prices on some items and rejiggering its store layouts as part of a sweeping plan aimed at reversing years of sluggish quarterly sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The sweeping majority of American nonprofits operate with annual budgets under $1 million; the value they got from Microsoft’s free business software equated to about 30 percent of their IT spend, he told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Last year’s sweeping tax law created the accounts, and this July was the first month when people could put money in them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Out on the street, a couple of shopkeepers sweeping the walks in front of their stores gave me double takes as I went by.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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"The Vietnam Wars" by Tod Olson
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