uniform
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Since banks don’t calculate their reported net interest margins in a consistent manner, the FactSet calculations allow for a uniform set of estimates of how each bank’s margin picture is expected to change.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Manufacturers often add chemicals that alter the liquid's surface tension to create smoother, more uniform coatings.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
A photo on social media from before 2014 shows him in Ukrainian police uniform, with a badge identifying him as a traffic policeman.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Fishing vests seemed to be a local uniform: The number of pockets per capita had to be among the highest in America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Hannie is marching efficiently at the front in her German Red Cross uniform and the rest of us follow as quickly and confidently as we can manage.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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In Ankara, Turkish riders on horseback flanked Trump's limousine as it drove through the hushed streets to the presidential palace where an honour guard in red and blue uniforms greeted him.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
There are costumes, in the form of uniforms, and choreography, in the navigation of a packed dining room.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
At the Rick Owens show, Rick-heads made minimal weather-restrictive tweaks to their usual uniforms — platforms, leather, ground-grazing garments — making you appreciate the beauty in that level of ascetic dedication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I saw two officials in sheriffs uniforms, one of whom was from Nebraska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
We’ve got crisp uniforms and the Boys and Girls Club logo on our backs and down the side of our pants.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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The force said there was nothing to suggest there was any wider risk to the public, but it would be increasing patrols and the number of uniformed officers in the area.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
As a stopgap, the VA brought on a private security firm in June to provide uniformed 24-hour “observe and report” sentry posts and roving patrols.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Troop bands playing music onstage, troops putting on military combatives exhibitions in the octagon, troops sitting, uniformed and visible, beneath the Claw to watch the spectacle in person.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a uniformed branch of the federal government under the Department of Health and Human Services, received notices to deploy to Kenya, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
We step through a tiled foyer, past a coat check with uniformed clerks, and descend a few steps into a marble-floored dance hall.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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“What we’re talking about is not creating any new laws, we’re talking about uniforming the laws that we have,” Manchin said in afternoon speech on the Senate floor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2013
Routed, he sailed for the U. S., established himself in Westbury, L. I., furnished copy on dull days by such stunts as uniforming and drilling an army of messenger boys and farmhands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The pay of the 22,500 men amounted to 7,838,400 francs; rations, 6,366,195; musicians, 239,112; uniforming, 1,887,682; officers' uniforms, 208,837.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
On this morning of battle little attention had been paid to uniforming.
From Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 by Cooper, James Fenimore
Inside rode two passengers, one apparently an official, sheriff, or something, the other a doctor, who debated all the way the propriety of uniforming the physician in attendance upon executions.
From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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