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table

[tay-buhl] / ˈteɪ bəl /






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A seat at the table is too important to cede to whoever is willing to leak a photograph.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

I remember my parents arguing about it at the kitchen table.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

They had the cadence of a catechism, and evolved into a set of rules recited like a prayer by Yamel, her brother and their aunt around the kitchen table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

He later set up a foosball table at work and dared colleagues to beat him, according to The Infinity Machine, Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Hassabis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“You two clean up the dishes and meet me in the family room when you’re done,” Dad says to me and Arlo, getting up from the table.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

They’ve had a pickleball night to introduce themselves to new students, coffee meet-and-greets, debate tables and game nights.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Top Secret: OpenAI alleges an ex-employee took confidential files to Apple, including detailed images of an unreleased device, turning the tables on Apple in an ongoing trade secret theft case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"There used to be tables and chairs with people eating food and drinking by the river," said Mark Newlands, who lives a few doors down.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

After graduating from college, Batter moves to New York, where he folds shirts at the Gap and busses tables at a restaurant named Just Okay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

When this happens, the Jesuits dive under tables or beds for protection.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Speaking at the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Saturday, the first minister said buses would be brought under public control by 2031 through franchising and regulation, with a Bill tabled in Holyrood next year.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The last effort to change the law was supported by MPs but stalled in the House of Lords earlier this year after peers tabled more than 1,200 amendments.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Johnson tabled a motion to axe the declaration in June, despite having backed it as a Conservative councillor in 2019.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

BBC Sport understands proposals were tabled at the 2025 ICC annual conference to create a single-class of membership, rather than having associate and full members, but it did progress.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

Roberts said he hoped tabling throwing, at least for now, could help Ohtani’s offensive production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

With the likes of Everton circling and tabling a bid reportedly worth more than £1m, he left Lancashire as a 17-year-old and instead joined Leicester City for an undisclosed fee.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Ineos and Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani both made offers, tabling bids of around £5bn.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2023

The meeting ended with Eisenhower tabling Stassen’s plan, ostensibly for the moment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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