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The NFL, however, cast its lot with Stan Kroenke, who built the $5-billion stadium in Inglewood that became SoFi — then the new home for the Rams in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Many of the TV show's adult cast members have fielded questions, external in recent years about whether they support her stance, and taken varying positions.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The shadow cast when the Moon blots out the Sun will begin in Russia's remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continue in an arc over Greenland and Iceland.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The storytelling by producer-director Thomas Patterson, supported by a cast of experts and an array of film clips and newsreels, is intended to be engaging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Scratchy sheets or no scratchy sheets, this was exactly the fresh start I’d been hoping for, and for a moment I forgot about the Cocoon and the ominous shadow it had cast over everything.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
When this happens, the moon casts two types of shadows.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
At 80, President Lula on Sunday launches his bid for re-election, casting himself as a defender of Brazil's "sovereignty" as pressure from Donald Trump's administration casts a shadow over the campaign.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
From the moment Gavriel steps inside the narrator’s top-tier Jerusalem high school, he casts a shadow on the staid older faculty members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He casts himself as a problem-solver and negotiator par excellence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
“She casts aside even her own daughter. The goddess would never allow my tapestries to be shown in the palaces of the gods. She was always jealous of me.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Eclipses happen when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, casting a narrow band of shadow across our planet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves directly between Earth and the Sun, covering the Sun and casting a narrow region of Earth into darkness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nine signings have arrived this summer, with more expected, but last year's ruinous form is casting a long shadow.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Results from computer memory stocks Sandisk and Western Digital weren’t quite good enough, casting a pall over the broader AI and tech stock complex this morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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