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This follows Qatar-based smelter Qatalum starting a controlled shutdown of aluminum output on Tuesday, with a full restart expected to up to twelve months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Marvell faces risks from reliance on large customers who may design their own chips; shares dropped 13% over twelve months.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

According to Companies House's website, Large is listed as being the director of twelve companies in the last 20 years, all of which are stated as dissolved.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

The symposium included twelve specialists representing nutrition, food science, dietetics, nutrition metabolism and physiology, cardiovascular and cognitive health, gut health and microbiology, and both preclinical and clinical research models.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

But when I ask about her life in Turkey and why only she came to Cuba, all she’ll say is that she was sent here when she was twelve to be her aunt’s companion.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar