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The key to the Jackrabbits returning to the top in the Moore League will be whether they can develop their offensive line to be effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Gen. Xavier Brunson, the top American military official in South Korea, visited Seoul’s defense minister on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Its immense size placed it near the top of the food chain, where it may have done more than simply hunt individual animals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
And Taylor Farms would certainly top the list for anyone glued to a toilet bowl lately, thanks to the company’s alleged indiscretion handling lettuce laced with the “explosive diarrhea” parasite.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
At the top of each page, in Pops’s neat block script, is the title of each puzzle.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Pug tops podium at Word’s Ugliest Dog contest…
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
September carrots can look almost too virtuous at the farmers market: sturdy bunches, feathery green tops, dirt in the creases.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It tops the £17.5m paid by Ipswich Town a year ago to sign Norway forward Sindre Walle Egeli.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
DeepSeek -- whose V4 Flash tops the usage leaderboard of technical platform OpenRouter -- said last week it plans a "significant increase" in prices for programmers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nighthand frowned and poured wine to the tops of two glasses, slopping it over the rim.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
On an adjusted basis, earnings of $4.92 a share topped analyst views for $4.73 a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
When Reddit reported quarterly results last month, sales and earnings per share topped Wall Street’s estimates, helped by its advertising segment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Farage, whose party had topped national opinion polls for 18 months before falling behind recently, surprised voters with his July 7 resignation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
This tally is widely expected to be topped again on Wednesday and Thursday with temperatures peaking in the mid-to-high 30s across the Midlands and south-east of England.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Sammy asked for strawberry ripple ice cream topped with peanut butter ice cream.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
“Sound & Color,” which came out in 2015, was somewhat artier but met with even greater success, topping Billboard’s album chart and winning three Grammys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The company is using influencers and others to suggest ways to zhuzh up home-cooked meals, for instance by topping protein with its lineup of dipping sauces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Treasury bond topping 5.3% for the first time since 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The latest Marvel blockbuster had the biggest debut weekend of all time at the domestic box office, when it earned $360 million -- topping Disney's 2019 "Avengers: Endgame" for the record on a non-adjusted-for-inflation basis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Then I found a basin of water and slicked back my hair from my face, topping it off with a bright red fez.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
