status
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The storm reached "violent typhoon" status, the highest classification used by the Japan Meteorological Agency and roughly equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Will it give you a higher status in the family?
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
According to the company's own definitions, that status required either an immediate shutdown or "immediate corrective action".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
He called the county registrar-recorder inquiring about the status of his mail-in ballot, he said, but the election staff didn’t see him listed as a registered voter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Perhaps the most graphic illustration of the singular status that Washington enjoyed was the decision of the Constitutional Convention to deposit the minutes of its secret deliberations with him for safekeeping.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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