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To help meet its needs, FlyDubai set up a program last year to train pilots from scratch and operates its own flight training center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“It’s the most aggressive tick in North America,” said Thomas Mather, professor of public health entomology and head of a tick research center at the University of Rhode Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
A column of smoke rises to the east, over the center of Kyiv, where the sky is beginning to brighten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The chipmaker’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, still dominate the artificial intelligence data center market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
These bones are the center of much contention —we call them Bone Wars.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Their research centers on a key problem with glioblastoma: the tumor can interfere with the immune system, weakening the very cells that might otherwise help attack the cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
It now encompasses a mashup of disparate tire shops, oil change outfits and repair centers, including franchises and company-owned stores, that maintain their local identity but benefit from being part of a synchronized national network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
They’ve been hiring more people to build data centers and to supply the materials and manufactured goods used in construction.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Vink, the Cornell senior, said she attended a few fraternity parties as a first-year student because so much of the school’s social life centers on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Put notices around the neighborhood, as well as in grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, and pet supply stores.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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Linton’s defense has centered on expert testimony from a neurologist and a psychiatrist who say Linton had a seizure before the crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Their objections centered on privacy and civil liberties, as well as fears the technology could be misused, the analysis found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The OIG's investigation centered around a major building renovation project at the Fed's Washington headquarters whose cost estimates grew from $1.3 billion in February 2020 to $2.4 billion in December 2024.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Can you tell us what issues you centered in that brief, and just lay out what relief it was that the plaintiffs felt was so urgently needed?
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
While Tallmadge was setting up the Culper Ring, Washington was already getting bits from Nathaniel Sackett, a “Person of Intrigue and Secrecy,” who was running his own spy network centered on New York City.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The original’s success paved the way for a surge in shows centering Black life in America, including “Living Single,” “Moesha” and “Martin.”
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In fact, she was treating herself daily to gelato and centering carbs at every meal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Once the concrete had set, the lagging was removed and the centering was lowered and moved onto the scaffolding of the next bay.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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