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[keys] / keɪs /






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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

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

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

"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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