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Texas to question whether modern forfeiture practice can be squared with its narrow historical roots.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Because the spacecraft approached Mars at a high-phase angle, the planet first appeared as a narrow, bright crescent.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Jonathan answered our questions inside a narrow room in a breeze block house, with his lieutenants crowding in.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
What ChatGPT did was turn AI from a narrow application into something everyone could use and identify with.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
She went up the narrow stairs to the second floor.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
The narrower question raised by Freeman’s tweet is whether states can bar—and in cases like Wisconsin, already have barred—betting on elections by voters.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
It proposes something much narrower: within the space of models it tests, certain scenarios make an asymmetry of the Neanderthal male/Sapiens female type more plausible.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Seismologist Lucy Jones has a narrower definition, in which there are two earthquakes in the same seismic sequence within 0.4 units of magnitude of each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
That seems to at least be partially related to Cerebras’s forecast for narrower core gross margins.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
His eyes became even narrower than they had been before.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
The five-year USD/JPY cross-currency basis was recently about negative-30 basis points, the narrowest level since the series began in 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s important to appreciate that the students pressed for the narrowest, most modest ruling possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Scrum after scrum failed to gain Glasgow the momentum they needed in the closing stages and the visitors doggedly saw out the narrowest of victories.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Its narrowest point is less than two miles wide, yet it must now accommodate roughly 440 ships a day—60% more than before the war.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Ma sewed hats for Mary and Laura of the finest, narrowest braid.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
But "the AI buildout is climbing onto a steeper section of track just as the gap between capital spending and internal cash generation narrows", he warned.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
She said: "It narrows the pavement to the point that if you're using a pushchair or a wheelchair you can't easily get past."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
If the yen suddenly strengthens further — whether because Japanese authorities intervene or the rate gap between the two currencies narrows — investors could be forced to unwind those positions rapidly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The decision narrows a federal law meant to protect religious rights in state prisons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Tūtū looks from the phone to me and narrows her eyes.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Since then, conditions in the private-credit market have deteriorated even more, but the junk spread has narrowed rather than widened — to 2.68 percentage points from 2.80.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Changes in sea level sometimes narrowed or removed marine barriers, creating temporary routes that animals could use to move between regions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Cleveland-Cliffs reported a narrowed first-quarter loss of $134 million as consolidated revenue rose to $5.23 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Only some sections of Stadium Straight would be narrowed to enable the inclusion of additional outdoor sporting and recreational facilities, such as 5-a-side football and 3v3 basketball.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
King Barf looked down at me, and his piggy eyes narrowed on the gold I still clutched in my hands.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In the second quarter, many regionals reported a dynamic of narrowing net interest margins but higher returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Last season, he generally played on the left of a 4-2-3-1, narrowing in from the wing and leaving the left-back to provide the width.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The company attributed the narrowing to the effects of its new go-to-market strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The district also called attention to progress in closing the achievement gap, saying there were “accelerated gains among historically underserved students who are narrowing achievement gaps and improving at rates that exceed overall district growth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Giggling was a form of mutiny to the nun and she quelled it with a wintery narrowing of her eyes.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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