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Luxon said Sunday that while it was "unlikely" he would need Opportunity Party to form a government, he was willing to work with leader Qiulae Wong on issues on which they agree.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Once approved, Williams got to work recruiting an executive board, including VPs of programming, marketing and “outreach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
"We can work with our current coalition partners to form the government," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
The financial driver behind the outsize compensation packages is the skyrocketing fees firms have been able to charge for corporate dealmaking, including private equity and mergers-and-acquisitions work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Paul surveys his work and nods to himself.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Jen Cooper, a microdrama viewer who now works as a consultant in the industry, agrees.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
“I know how City Hall works, and I know how to make it work for you,” Worth Girvan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Whether they tweak conventional wisdom or devise an entirely new way to pick stocks, the key is adopting a screening method that works — and then sticking with it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
Launched in 2008, AO3 has become the genre's main home, with more than 11 million registered users and nearly 18 million works stored on the platform.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
They just don't know how the brain works.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Ballard added that he and the governor have known each other for decades and worked together through “tough times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Her father worked in the profession for over three decades, taking journalists, photographers and visitors from different countries around Somalia.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Daniel Zingale worked for Newsom as a senior advisor in the governor’s office at the start of his first term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
It was a small work family of men and women who stayed on the job for years, worked as a team and tried to provide excellent service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
“You don’t want to celebrate more, for all the hard work we’ve done? You don’t want to thank me for how hard I worked with you to make you ready?”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Alongside Sul’s deftly handled, physical characterization of a proud man swallowed by hurt he could never imagine, “Possible Love” stands as one of the more sensitively wrought depictions of a wounded marriage you’ll ever see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Powerful waves thrashed communities along California's southern coast Friday, damaging homes and sending water cascading through streets as residents braced for more potential damage wrought by Tropical Storm Rachel.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
On a Discord messaging channel, and in online chat rooms across the internet, AI enthusiasts and professional researchers have been looking everywhere for evidence that AI agents have escaped from their labs and wrought havoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Alice’s humanity is defined by her total rejection of the manufactured digital world and the havoc its creators wrought.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
They were barred with ornate wrought iron fences and gates, and inside, women in flowered shifts dusted plastic covered furniture or sat on shaded balconies looking out over the commotion below.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
"This is the first year and we're working with some limitations," he said, adding that it would be a "beautiful production".
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Mod says it was "such a good time" working alongside Knightley and getting to do some extreme stunt sequences together.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The formerly homeless people I recently met at Chrysalis, all of them working now, and all of them housed, were a testament to this idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
While she studied for an associate degree for business administration—a fallback plan, she says—Mitchell balanced working 25 hours a week with one day of flying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
But I didn’t have the heart to start working again anyway.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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