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Big spending always means big ambitions, but shelling out so much money on so many players the way Tottenham did this summer produces problems for any manager, and there is no quick fix.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
After launching multibillion-dollar investment programs to rearm the country and fix its crumbling infrastructure, his government has begun work on overhauling its generous but underfunded welfare system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
I tossed it with store-bought ravioli and shredded rotisserie chicken warmed in olive oil, put peas on the side, and waited for the part where I needed to fix something.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
But before I explain that Dad is the absolute last person to fix electrical problems—he once hired a handyman to change a lightbulb—Camille runs into the kitchen.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Daybreak is able to quickly identify weaknesses in digital systems and help develop fixes.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
County officials were previously warned about flaws — yet few fixes have been made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
And after any fixes, the entire 746-mile pipeline will have to be pressure-tested, and all components checked and cleared before meaningful throughput can resume, Shah added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
“The press release just looks like they’re providing air cover for the company without directing real fixes or systematic changes.”
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
He fixes me with a quizzical stare and then consults his two smaller companions.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
"The risk is we become fixed on chasing individual substances in an unregulated market and we lose sight of the individual circumstances that are related to that," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But perhaps he has some fixed expenses that you could cover for a set period of time so the parameters of the gift are set.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“This case is about money Nick’s parents separately set aside for him alone and made irrevocable, to be paid to him on two fixed dates: one-half at 30, and the balance at 35.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
And though my knee pain hadn’t been fixed, I found the experience relaxing.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The cub’s eyes were fixed on the darkness: ears rigid, hackles raised.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixt hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge
And which of the Officers was it as first fixt my gaze, and held it firmly?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
Therefore once dead in vain shall I transmit My shadow to gazing Posteritie; Cast farre behind me I shall never see’t, On Heavens fair Sunne having fast fixt mine eye.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
Two young persons, neighbors of opulent families, had been long betrothed, and the marriage-day had been fixt for Sunday, the fatal 4th of November.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
Wortley set his mind to fixing the problem, shooting into the sun and trying out various chemicals and exposure times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I tried to fix a problem that didn't really need fixing, and I've come back with a bigger problem that I need surgery for, and I can't afford that," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Standard electron microscopy commonly involves chemically fixing and dehydrating tissue, steps that can alter the structures scientists are trying to observe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
If someone in one of those meetings, for example, doesn’t like the way a label looks, fixing the issue can be pushed out a full month.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nadia is scooping and Dad is fixing a broken cooler.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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