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The girl-meets-boy moment at the top of the enchanting Broadway musical “Maybe Happy Ending” is singularly appropriate for our gadget-dependent age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
As well as the top prize, Hamda, based in the Gaza Strip, also won the Public's Choice award for his reportage "What War Leaves Behind".
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Only Chelsea's Joao Pedro can better Gross' goal contributions this season in the top flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
His company California Forever has raised about $1 billion from investors, including venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, assembled top urban planners and won over state leaders including Newsom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Oh goodness, here,” she says, reaching behind her to open the top drawer of her desk.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The residents of Drop City, a Colorado artists’ community, built domes from the curved steel tops of salvaged cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The drug, which isn't suitable for some women, tops up and stabilises oestrogen levels, sometimes in combination with a synthetic or bioidentical version of progesterone.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
She describes herself as semi-retired, as she tops up her private pension by still doing some business consultancy work, the job she used to do full-time.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Brent crude trades 4.5% higher at $105.80 a barrel while WTI tops $100 a barrel after rising nearly 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Most of the trees around them were still upright, but their tops had been sheared off in the blast.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Waves topped the bulkhead and sent water into homes and streets, according to city officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
But consider that “Verity” topped last week’s box office by a wide margin, leaving “Digger” and “Heart of the Beast” eating its dust.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
It's not the first sporting connection for the band, who first broke big in Ireland due to their viral track Killeagh, a song that has topped the Irish charts on three separate occasions.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Served in a pita, it features European-style fried chicken topped with cold pickles, Levantine tahini and warm matbucha, a slow-cooked tomato-pepper condiment from North Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
They were fishing trophies, each topped with a fish.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Add in the energy and bravery of Jac Morgan, typically topping the turnover and tackle charts, Freddie Thomas's industry and Will Trenholm's old-school go-forward and there is a foundation there to build on.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Bond yields climbed, with the average on a gauge of world bonds topping four percent last week for the first time since 2007, according to Bloomberg.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The effect of rates topping the psychologically important 7% level is rippling through the market for buyers, sellers and builders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Same-store sales, or those made at established stores, rose 9.4% during the period, topping estimates for a 9% increase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
She showed me how to pump “butter” topping into the popcorn.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
