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Spooky season may be in full swing, but never fear: I’ll be back in your inbox tomorrow.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Pump prices should not have to follow every swing in global crude or the exchange rates," Oyedele said, adding that the government was "negotiating a ceiling of 1,350 naira a litre".
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Analysts say the market’s narrow breadth poses a risk to investors, with returns reliant on a small group of stocks that can swing wildly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In the on-deck circle, he did not always take a swing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Anya skidded to a stop and gaped upward, watching the tarp swing.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
At the suggestion of the arborist, we had the tree’s main limbs secured by industrial wiring that prevented them from swinging too wildly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yet this week he fretted about the pendulum swinging too far the other way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"It was definitely tit for tat and definitely a game of momentum swinging," said centre Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The sprawling lawn is covered in patches of wildflowers, hammocks swinging between leafy trees, and crowded shuffleboard courts.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
But she has swung to the latter camp and now recommends investors buy the stock.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was the evidence of Mary Archer that swung the case.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
In December of that year, Officer Andy Ornelas, 27, was struck in Palmdale after a driver swung from the right shoulder to make a U-turn and ended up directly in his path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
However, the game swung again in the over after Kelly reached his hundred as the left-hander heaved Tom Helm to Higgins on the mid-wicket fence to leave Leicestershire eight down.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The heavy iron doors swung open; at the heels of a woman guard, we marched through.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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