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A housekeeping note: This season was produced before the end of the most recent Supreme Court term.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
"If the political will and financing align, it is doable in the short term," Larochelle told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Having scored last Sunday and again in the Premier League opener, he already has more goals for the season than the one he managed in 36 appearances last term.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Even more because the lead buyer is a person whose relationship to Mr. Trump has a specific term in Turkish, Chinese and a few other languages, but not English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Both men believed that Elisha’s passion for Maggie was short term.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"I am in a good spot in terms of where I am at on the leaderboard, but it's going to take a heroic effort from one of us to catch Wyndham."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
"They've got to come to terms with the lack of trust in Britain," royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The terms “were uneconomic, unfair and undermined the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
This means we all respond differently to exercise in terms of how many calories we burn or whether a workout makes us feel hungrier later in the day.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Then every morning Luc would quiz me in person before my shift began, correcting my pronunciation, having me repeat the terms until they rolled off my tongue smooth as marbles.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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It’s not “human cockfighting,” as John McCain termed it in 1996 while pushing for a ban on the sport—preliminary research suggests that both football and boxing cause more brain damage than MMA.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
It can hold up to 135 long-term and short-term men who need to be separated from mainstream prisoners because of the nature of their offence - termed "offence-related protection prisoners".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Predicting the weather over the next 72 hours, Krick favors what might generously be termed a historically informed approach and what might ungenerously be dubbed barmy pseudoscience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Three candidates are competing for an open seat in District 3, where Councilmember Bob Blumenfield has termed out of office.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
“The police have no comment, but if you’re just joining us, Inside News has learned that the Angels’ deaths have been termed ‘suspicious.’
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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Councilmember Bob Blumenfield is terming out in District 3, leaving the race to represent the southwestern San Fernando Valley open to a newcomer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
M23 rebels blamed the government for the attack, terming it a "terrorist act".
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
In District 3, which covers the southwestern San Fernando Valley including Woodland Hills, Tarzana and Reseda, City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield is terming out, leaving the field open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
It’s an outcome so humiliating that baseball even has a name for it, terming three strikeouts in one game as earning that player a “silver sombrero.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
In fact, by terming it a 'problem', I perhaps overstate the matter.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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