V
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Visa V -0.18%decrease; red down pointing triangle has already partnered with Alchemy, meaning most credit cards can now work with the tool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The research is supported by a highly competitive Translational Research Grant from the V Foundation awarded to Datta and his team.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Kenneth Branagh, the British actor whose career has been built on weighty roles such as Shakespeare's Henry V, is perhaps an unlikely action hero.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
During Tuesday's ceremony, parliament also held a minute's silence for Haakon's father, the late King Harald V, who died on Friday.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
And then, suddenly, when V had been just a little girl, the factory had shut down.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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Surely someone will soon make the case that Operation Epic Fury is the greatest triumph of arms since Henry V’s longbowmen routed the superior French numbers at Agincourt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Their daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, are currently non-working royals, and will retain their titles as princesses, in line with King George V's Letters Patent of 1917.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Jimin’s sophisticated synthpop, Jungkook’s neo-disco acrobatics, V’s misty R&B and Suga’s ferocious rapping all proved their mettle outside the context of the band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Grand Theft Auto VI will arrive more than a decade after Grand Theft Auto V’s 2013 release.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Dragging Doodle behind her, Penny has scooted out of Mrs. V’s front door and is halfway down the ramp from her porch, shouting, “Bye-bye!” from under her green baseball cap.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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I always say don’t do the five Vs all at once, because people who are intense like myself will want to do everything at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
So far, they have raised £24,500 for the Young Lives Vs Cancer charity, that supports Harry's family.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
The project’s nature-themed name is making it easier for the topic to gain traction on social media than other oil projects with more technical-sounding names, said Cassidy DiPaolo, spokesperson for People Vs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Nike would not say, but industry analyst Matt Powell believes it destroyed its supply of Air Zoom Vick Vs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
The probability of the first is % x Vs x Vs = 5/2i6, a result which holds true for the second and third ways as well.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Patrick’s breathing had become even more labored and Dr. Nadas said, “Welton, we go see the president” — his Hungarian accent turning the w’s into v’s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013
His th's slurred together, and his w’s started sounding like v’s.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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The art of subtle suggestion could hardly go further than in this line, where the alliterating v's, the mute e's, and the placing of the long syllables combine so wonderfully to produce the required effect.
From Books and Characters French and English by Giles Lytton Strachey
My p's and b's would wobble and bend till they looked like f's and v's, if I tried to halve a letter I quartered it.
From Far Off Things by Arthur Machen
“Vell, I say,” began Bobby, but Tim interrupted him with, “Now, Bob, you must git off that ’abit you’ve got o’ puttin’ v’s for double-u’s.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
People can also ask questions by sending a letter to Landsheft, et al. vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The core measure climbed 1.7% on year in August, vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Soon, he was landing gigs as a production assistant and camera operator on an American Idol tour and as an assistant camera operator on another National Geographic reality show, Okies vs.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Coyote vs Acme" took fifth place, with Will Forte and an animated Wile E. Coyote snaring another $5.6 million for Falling Forward Films.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
One was a sixty-four-page booklet, 1972 World Chess Championship, Boris Spassky vs.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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