transfer
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Now United have made their move, it would be a surprise if the transfer was not concluded swiftly.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Under an agreement disclosed last month, Coty plans to transfer the license about a year ahead of its original term for $400 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Thermodynamics emerged in the 19th century largely to explain how large machines such as steam engines convert and transfer energy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The receiving corps was hit hard by graduation but the offensive line should be much improved with the addition of Servite transfer Elisha Mueller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
January 16, 1969: Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 dock and make the first in-orbit crew transfer.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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He listed several activities that he said need to stop immediately: "oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies—It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The digital bank posted on X, external it had "identified some issues" and activated a stand-in backup service which meant users could still make transactions like card payments and sending and receiving bank transfers.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Instead, the beneficiaries typically work directly with the IRA custodian, which transfers their respective shares into inherited IRAs or otherwise distributes the assets according to the applicable rules.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
For some reason, instead of looking for transfers, we were going to sit in a bus.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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As is the case now, trauma patients, such as those that have been involved in road traffic accidents, will be transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for treatment.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The New York Times reported that Rideout, who is also a pilot, may have been transferred to another group prior to his release.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I’ve been working pretty much myself,” said the 5-foot-11, 210-pound running back who transferred from Mira Costa to Gardena Serra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In another context, a president being quietly transferred between aircraft in a service vehicle might register as little more than a piece of security choreography — unusual, perhaps, but hardly ready-made for farce.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Her father, Oliver Brown, applied to the school board to have her transferred to the closer school.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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According to interviews and internal emails reviewed by ProPublica, career staffers at the Justice Department warned that transferring voter rolls to HSI to enable it to search for noncitizen voters could violate federal privacy laws.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Zambia has a long record of transferring power through the ballot box, with every change of president since the return to multiparty politics in 1991 achieved through elections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It's a huge blow to have to spend a lot more transferring animals than we previously have done," Dr Rebecca Biddle, from the zoo, said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most enigmatic, perhaps, are large, two-sided, abstract drawings from the 1970s, both used in transferring images to canvas and ends in themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
I may have had only one swimsuit each season, because I never remember transferring the tag.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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