shelf
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This means making the right choices when are facing the food shelf happen automatically "because you have already planned the situation in which you have to act".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The stage closest to the shelf rose 1.1%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
It houses shelf after shelf of cute Japanese characters such as My Melody, Totoro and Kuromi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Each shelf is stocked with paperbacks like “Moby-Dick” and “The Bell Jar.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
I took a deep breath, eased the incense burner I was holding back onto the shelf, and moved out of the shadows.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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“And we never heard back,” Miranda said, telling me she had seen people set up camp at the property, bringing in mattresses, book shelves and clothing racks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Read: This type of annuity is ‘flying off the shelves.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Reeling from these two fat books, I pulled from the shelves Peter Ackroyd’s 1983 novel, “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde”—densely wrought, impressionistic and all wrapped up in about 180 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But Armitage is concerned that increasingly stormy seas could leave the islands cut off for extended periods - and the supermarket shelves empty.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Danny hurried between the shelves to return the books he’d been reading.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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