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Mr. Westad, a historian at Yale, makes a powerful case for compromise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
She said the council's "ambition" was to be as open and transparent as possible, but there had been legal limitations on what could be shared while the case progressed through court.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
To put your case in perspective, your credit-card debt is more than four times the average credit-card balance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
“That remains the case today,” Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says during a call with analysts, acknowledging that others will speculate about their acquisition intentions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Well, it won’t matter in his case, will it?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Health officials said Thursday that 1,644 cases of cyclosporiasis are linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Board of Education authorized the sale of $750 million in bonds to settle hundreds of cases dating back decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The cat may be evolution’s artwork, but it is the dog that holds sway in prints and paintings, and in many cases transforms them into masterpieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Then we started to see cases that were homegrown here.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We? What do you mean, we? You're not on one of your crazy Clue Crew cases, are you?"
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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Lining the others are shelves of old handwritten scores, stacks of cased instruments and a plethora of study scores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Marinello said the placement of the furniture lift outside the Louvre suggested that the thieves had cased the space ahead of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Music blares from a huge speakers cased in a wheelie bin as people huddle round fire pits in a crowd made up of farmers, families, tradesmen and even an off-duty police officer.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2024
The allegation is one of a slew in a book that exposes painful, intimate — and in some cased contested — details about the lives of Harry and other members of the royal family.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
A cased sausage hanging from a wire above the binnacle swayed a little as the Susan Marie undulated; otherwise, nothing moved.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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"It was an empty cartridge or shell casing," Civil Surgeon Kumar said.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The US justice department says the video also shows Allen "casing the area" at the hotel, on the day before the dinner was held in a basement ballroom there.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
It’s unclear whether Combs and Tracy were targeted, or if the suspects were casing homes in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The glitchy Permian plumbing is forcing producers to drill through zones of high pressure, fortify their wells with additional strings of casing, and use protective coating against corrosive saltwater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
I open the privacy casing, breaking the seal.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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