bounty
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Then at San Quentin, Shermantine made a deal with a bounty hunter to provide directions to the remains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
But on Monday the credits finally began to roll as California Attorney General Rob Bonta extracted a bounty in return for letting Paramount Skydance acquire the Hollywood studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
This time the action takes place on New Year’s Eve, but let’s tally the gift bounty anyway.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
He jabbed a finger at the bounty hunter Phil Resch.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Outside of the movies, shark bounties are uncommon these days.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
He never saw protection of domestic manufacturing as a long-term policy but rather insisted that “continuance of bounties on manufactures long established must almost always be of questionable policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The US has removed millions of dollars in bounties from senior members of the Haqqani militant network in Afghanistan, including one on its leader Sirajuddin Haqqani who is also the Taliban government's interior minister.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Huge bounties are offered for information leading to our capture.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing bounty
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The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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