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That could be music to the ears of the Belgian, who will be provided with much-needed extra time on the training pitch with his new players to put across fresh ideas.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
By the time 2026 rolled around, he had cracked the industry lists of baseball’s best 100 prospects for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“At the time my reaction was, ‘why is he doing this?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Add water 1 tablespoon at a time if the pan gets dry.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I guess I’m having a really hard time concentrating.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
That metric gauges how likely chances are to result in goals, taking into account a range of variables, and Arsenal finished with almost three times the xG total of City.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The AI insisted several times that the passage existed, and even offered a page number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The peninsula covers about 110 square miles — roughly five times the size of Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
For a brief period, the energy being released reached roughly 400 billion times the output of Earth's Sun, surpassing even the most powerful supernovae known to astronomers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
But it turned out to be too soon for people working their way back from such hurt: the two times I tried it, it ended in open fights.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Since our move coincided with Amazon’s Prime Day sale, I timed a few purchases accordingly and saved a combined $21.50 on the router and some household essentials.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
And while Grande later insisted the break was pre-planned and not “reactive or impulsive,” there’s no doubt the announcement was timed to dull the cacophony of both the jeers and cheers.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The theme also dominated his six-minute farewell video timed to release after death.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Aschenbrenner scrambled for lifelines while preparing for his unfortunately timed wedding in a seaside town in Northern California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Over and over. Everything is timed out to the music....”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Their goal is to identify effective treatments and determine the best timing for possible interventions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
In this case, City think Chelsea are the ones who need to do a deal, and if it happens, it will be at a timing of their choosing, not the London club's.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Administration officials say the rotation was prescheduled, but the timing is hard to ignore.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
That made the timing of Kushner’s offer incredibly fortuitous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
So in a few weeks I will try timing the sunrise and sunset each day.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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