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Another season of USC football is about to begin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said that the antitrust trial would begin March 2, much later than Paramount executives wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
His trial is scheduled to begin on 26 October.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
And then I silently begin to excavate the mess in front of me.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"My path really begins in that little church in Mondolfo in the Marche region, where, from the time I was a child, I would go with my mother to help clean that building," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The results suggest that pesticides may continue accumulating in a colony even after exposure begins, especially once worker bees are no longer able to remove contaminants as effectively.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The next round of federal campaign fundraising data will not be available until mid-October, just before early voting begins.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Perhaps not surprising, this recognition begins with business elites 3,000 miles away from Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the sun begins to set, I help Gloria wash the dishes with the water she’s collected in a bucket.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The tournament was also tweaked to place over two days in the week before the main draw began.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Their goal is to push observations closer to the time when the universe's first generations of stars and galaxies began to emerge.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
And Arsenal began its championship defense on Friday night with a 3-0 victory over Coventry City, which prompted giddy speculation that Arsenal might actually be fun to watch this season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Players began to eat in total silence focused on their task at hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The home in Bloemendaal served ex-prisoners and other war victims exclusively until 1950, when it also began to receive people in need of care from the population at large.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
GlowDrop has begun featuring men in its ads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
To ease the crisis, Russia has begun importing petrol.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The assumption was built into the feature: We have already begun shopping for you.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The insurance company State Farm has begun sending checks to millions of policyholders as part of the company’s largest-ever cash-back dividend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Not quite dinner, but an hour in which Mrs. Dannenberg would likely have begun preparing for the evening meal.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
That night, attendees whispered that this was only the beginning, and it was likely that the country’s finances would get much worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Now, that threat is beginning to take shape.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Students at Brinell School had only just returned to the classroom following the summer break, with the new term beginning either on Monday or Wednesday this week, depending on the academic year.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I mean everything about this project from beginning to end is blood, sweat and tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But Theo said he hadn’t been outside all night, not since we got home, and the rain didn’t start until much later—it was only beginning to rain when I reached Central.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
