tick
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Donald worked as landscape gardener before suffering from a stroke and later contracting Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called on," Ronaldo said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
On a recent afternoon I joined Roden-Reynolds, the public health biologist, as he surveyed an elderly couple’s yard in Chilmark, a tick hot spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The noise of the tick echoed through her, and she wrestled with it, willing it to stop.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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A treatment to eliminate ticks on deer, like a tick collar on dogs, shows promise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gold ticks up 0.2% to $4,362 an ounce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
ISM factory index ticks down in August as price pressure continues to build.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Japan currently ticks all three of those boxes,” says Colvin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“And Cotton had two ticks on him,” Howard was saying.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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The shares ticked up ahead of the bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note ticked up 0.011 percentage point to 5.243%, closing within seven basis points of a multidecade high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The greenback ticked down from multiyear highs Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He ticked through a laundry list of Florida constituents – retirees, teachers, emergency workers, restaurant staff and local government employees, flagging that they need to be able to "make ends meet".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The moments of suspense ticked by for what seemed ages until Matthias managed to squeeze past the serpent’s head.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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With the hours ticking down to the closing ceremony, when Japan will hand over the baton to Doha, top officials were on the defensive.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
“While the constant rotation has kept us from seeing a correlation-one selloff, we continue to think the clock is ticking, and we see one sooner than later,” says Krinsky.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
"He's a superstar and I'd love to think I'd have the opportunity to be up against him again, but I don't know, maybe time is ticking."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It’s 6:55 a.m., his ticking clock tells him.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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