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zone

[zohn] / zoʊn /


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Getting "out of their comfort zone" and taking that first step onto the stage is the hard part, says McGarry - but the payoff is worth it.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

Concede a penalty on halfway and you are rolling out the red carpet into the red zone.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

The yen is once again approaching the potential intervention zone, within striking distance of the historically sensitive 160-163 yen range against the dollar, he said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Iommi has a comfort zone, so he’d originally wanted Butler on the new album, which didn’t work out logistically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

On the scorched middle ground of Korea, however, Blake discovered the gray zone, where even hardened loyalties were tested and new alliances forged.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

There will be no additional movement restrictions or disease control zones, because the virus has been present in Northern Ireland since November 2025.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Clan-based militias, warlords and foreign-backed armed factions have divided the territory into competing zones of control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Gazi Jasim Uddin, who heads the police unit for industrial zones, said protests had dropped sharply compared with recent days.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Google pledged Wednesday that its data centre campuses in Malaysian industrial zones would be "energy-efficient".

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

He was pretty sure he remembered reading some rule against civilians bearing weapons in war zones.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Occasional experiences of “mindless eating” or “dissociative eating” are human; most of us have zoned out with a bag of chips at one point or another.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

To set up manufacturing space on a lot zoned for retail, Leong and his wife opened Ando Café on the premises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The lawsuit alleges that the leased land is zoned exclusively for agricultural use and that the federal government violated laws requiring state and county notification, as well as procedural steps required before beginning construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

In 2025, Texas passed bills legalizing housing on commercially zoned land and subdivisions of starter homes, which were rendered difficult or illegal to build by municipal zoning laws, large lot requirements, or other design requirements.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

For the rest of the half I was awesome; I was zoned.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

The state has fewer zoning laws and environmental and labor requirements, and has vast swaths of loosely regulated land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Skeptics, including Lewis, say there is already enough demand for new housing and that additional changes, such as to building codes or zoning, are needed to make it easier and less expensive to build.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Mr. Tullett reports that in the U.S., due to zoning laws, “paper mills have settled in black-majority neighborhoods” whose residents have been historically obliged to bear the brunt of sensory pollution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Uttarakhand government on 12 October approved new floodplain zoning rules to regulate land use and development.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

And because I was the first one, I took my favorite seat for zoning out: last row, left window.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee


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