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It is understood Mulholland has spoken to a wide range of candidates from the UK and beyond.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The investigation included a wide range of samples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The third, “The Very Fine Clock,” received a wide release in 1968, the same year Spark published “The Public Image.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In March 2022, a rocket slammed into the moon, creating a double crater about 95 feet wide.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The cell was identical with the one I had just left, six steps long, two wide, a single cot at the back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
However, GPs and doctors in the wider NHS are more sceptical, with NHS England warning that the popularity of these scans is leading to more "over-diagnosis, unnecessary investigations and avoidable anxiety".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
For many protesters, the prospect of uncertain employment after years of study and highly competitive examinations has become a symbol of a wider struggle for economic security.
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
Many of the people who live in Walton and the wider constituency originate from east London.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The video-game company recorded higher sales and a wider loss in its fiscal first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It eyed them in a most calculating way and once, when Nhamo teased it with a stick, it rose up with its yellow mouth open wider than she had dreamed possible.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
This marks the planet's widest visible separation from the Sun during its current appearance in the evening sky.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
People who engaged most frequently and across the widest variety of activities were roughly a year younger biologically than those who didn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“It’s a cyclical roll that gets set up when a boat is taking even a 4-foot wave cyclically over and over on the beam,” Elfers said, referring to the widest point of a boat’s hull.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Polling company Gallup found that China surpassed the US in global approval ratings last year, external, with the widest gap recorded in China's favour in 20 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The American boys were only a length off the pace but still out in the widest part of the lake, bucking the relentless, punishing winds, spray flying from their oars with every release.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
