yard
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Progressive revenue recognition from its record order book and partial contribution from a new yard should also drive the Singapore-listed shipbuilder’s earnings growth, the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Using a plastic bag to collect the soil and disposing of it in the garbage — not green yard waste bins — will help to reduce the spread of airborne chemicals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
"We opened two containers every day in the yard," he said, sitting in his office beside a whirling fan.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
The yard at the Plaswire Ltd site in Lurgan, County Armagh, is covered with wind turbine parts and other kinds of large-scale industrial materials looking for an alternative ending.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
On fire, the car skidded across the patio and over the slate walk, singeing the grass as it wheeled and bounced across the yard.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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Aggrieved Egyptian fans remember the goal they had chalked off against Argentina, for a foul that took place 90 yards away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In the first days of the original Metropolitan Police investigation, officers knocked on a door just a few hundred yards from the alley - the home of the Stewart family.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
"The bears have surrounded us. They come into the house yards, cause damage, eat the fruit off the trees," the 65-year-old told AFP at his home in Kleisoura, just east of the city of Kastoria.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
But De Ketelaere poked a toe out to knock the ball back to Vanaken, who skipped a shot from about 30 yards past a retreating Ream and into the vacant goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Up in the Chicago yards, we’d find us a train of the Great Northern Line.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Often on horseback, he yarded and penned cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Atik returned, Miyax told him he did not need to go to the mountains—that a large herd was yarded not far up the river.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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The beef scrap will also be less than with yarded fowls, perhaps twenty-five cents per hen.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
One day in winter, when I was about thirteen years old, my brothers, Nat and Ebenezer, went up to Nott's Brook, to see if they could find some deer yarded in the swamp.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by Canavan, M. J. (Michael Joseph)
The boys expected their drover friend to be as excited as they were, but he had seen cattle yarded so many hundreds of times that he took things very coolly.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
The sharp fuss of grown-ups, issued from porches at the rowdy barefoot yarding of neighborhood kids, rises over the chatter of rocking chairs, to contend with manic squeals and out-of-breath laughter.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
Farther south, yarding may occur only during years when the weather is more severe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What triggers whitetails to move to winter yarding areas?
From Time Magazine Archive
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In some northern states, they�ll travel to yarding areas in softwood swamps.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This is being overcome by using a separate engine with the high lead for yarding and doing the logging independently of the yarding as is done in the case of railroad logging.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Knapp, Frederick Malcolm
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