table
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The consumer-price index came in as expected: not soft enough to take a rate increase off the table, not firm enough to force one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Notably absent from the table is exiled opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, who has said she will not stand in the way of the process.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Barb is toasting Ron and his accomplishments, but he can’t pay attention because the waitress is standing awkwardly at the table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Larger table areas are being set up at the count venue of Clacton Leisure Centre so the long ballot papers can be verified, sorted into piles and then counted.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He sat at the faux wooden table and his spine wilted.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
At the hotel, scores of the victims, mostly young children, noisily gathered around plastic tables in a hall for lunch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Long tables run beneath temporary walls, temporary roof.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Those tables, plus a hard-to-decipher map dating to the same time, show high levels of a carcinogenic chemical on the property and extending beyond it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He turns 80 next year and plans to carry on serving and clearing tables.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
She walks toward the front of the building, where coordinating green picnic tables sit beneath a canopy, with vehicles parked on either side.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Privately-held Stripe and Advent tabled an offer to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share earlier this month, Reuters and the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The council’s five-member rules committee tabled those ideas, saying they need more study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
But when the vote came, the Commissioners Court tabled the temporary moratorium discussion and voted to grant Comanche Circle a conditional approval, requiring more detailed plans later.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Bahrain, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Singapore and the UAE had tabled the plan for "a framework to allow the safe evacuation of seafarers and ships stranded in the Gulf".
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
Fisher Ames of Massachusetts wondered out loud why the House had allowed itself to be drawn intoa debate over “abstract propositions” and now urged that the committee report be tabled.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
That was subject to Palace tabling a written formal offer for the Norway forward, which Wolves would have accepted.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
"A local government's tabling or rejecting of such a measure doesn't by any means mean the initiative is dead," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
The event will highlight Indigenous identity, art, dance and history and include performances, art workshops, educational videos and tabling by student and community organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Anwar, who took power last November, announced the measures while tabling 2024 federal budget in Parliament.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
The meeting ended with Eisenhower tabling Stassen’s plan, ostensibly for the moment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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