van
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Police have handed out hundreds of leaflets and used an advertising van displaying her photograph in Piccadilly Gardens as they continue efforts to find her.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Swerving van in Norway helps crack 66,000-silver-coins fraud case.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
But if you watch the full clip from TMZ, he actually offers a small wave and a thumbs-up before being loaded into a van, although he doesn’t speak.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
To all of which the historian Hans van de Ven might say: Yes, but you are missing a few things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He’s loading birds in cages into the back of the van.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Shipping isn’t as big of a problem on the East Coast because so many tracks are clustered in the northeast and horses can be vanned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Jockey Jesus Castanon pulled her up passing the 3/16th pole and she was vanned off, Equibase race chart notes stated.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2023
Spun Intended was pulled up in front of the grandstand by jockey Mike Smith and vanned off.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
The race was not without its moment of serious concern when Epicenter was pulled up on the backstretch and vanned off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
Smith, preparing to take his Kayak east, vanned Seabiscuit to Ridgewood, said his good-byes, and left him in Pollard’s care.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
The proposal would also help pay for the cost of vanning horses and relocation expenses for horsemen, including grooms and trainers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
In fact, vanning enthusiasts include a good many old coots as well as young marrieds, loners and lovers as well as adolescents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The paradoxical realities of vanning suggest another possibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
The short answer is that vanning has become an American craze.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vanning spade and shallow washing dish are the prototypes of this kind of ore-dressing machinery.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
