treat
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After that, creditors are supposed to treat people who filed for it like anyone else.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
In recent weeks, the vegetable has been popping up all over social media in sweet treat form - as an ingredient in everything from cookies and ice cream to cheesecake.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
First, he writes, government and media “began to treat the subject much more seriously” in the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It also specifies that agencies are not required to treat engagement from AI or bots as if they were real humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Zoe would never treat you badly. She’s one of the most caring and loving people I know. If by some tiny chance she did, why would Calvin leave Alex with her?”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Singer and businesswoman Dolly Parton, who died earlier this week, had a slew of projects in the pipeline including a biopic, documentary, avatar show, museum, travel stop for truckers, coffee brand and dog treats.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It treats the Government’s stay application as if the whole point is merely to demonstrate that the Plaintiff States’ claims are not justiciable.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Indeed, your avian visitors may complain if you give them fewer tasty treats or stop feeding them altogether.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The Village Center convenience store beckons with shaded parking and a freezer full of frozen treats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Aunt Rose was the only person besides Ophie who would know to leave out treats for the dead.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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According to the researchers, the previous analysis treated the age of a galaxy as though it were the same as the age of the individual star that later exploded as a supernova.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
"It is vital that those different views are treated with dignity and respect," he wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
That framework, though, isn’t treated like some act-structured gauntlet in Ford’s telling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
They claimed that the work collapsed several species of snakes together in synonymy, meaning that different types of creatures were treated as if they were the same one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But he was becoming angrier over how Americans were being treated by the British.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Sly and the Family Stone’s message of overcoming prejudice and treating everyone with dignity, including ourselves, matches their steadfast dedication to making all their fans feel loved, especially children.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Once you start treating a retirement account as a source of spending money, it can become an ATM that you return to repeatedly throughout your working career,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
While I’d sooner take life advice from my golden retriever than a chatbot, my parents aligned with their contemporaries in treating Claude as a Google substitute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"My wife and I believe in treating others the way that we'd like to be treated, with decency and respect," Pence, a devout Christian, told CNN.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
By treating us with respect, Schindler was resisting the Nazi racist ideology that constructed a hierarchy of humanity in which Jews were at the very bottom.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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