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climb

[klahym] / klaɪm /


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Asked if his team can continue to climb, Vonnahme said, “I think we can. But most importantly, we have to try. Everybody wants us to continue to elevate.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

“So it does take a little bit of time to climb their ladder.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Any wet weather will become confined to northern and western areas - especially north-west Scotland - and in southern parts of the UK temperatures look set to climb once again.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The pair crossed the line together with their arms around each other's shoulders after Pogacar paced a suffering Del Toro up the final climb.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

They could climb the trees, kick a football about, whizz around on their mountain bikes.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Mr. Jones describes a freshwater snail that, sensing a predator, instinctively climbs or descends depending on where the perceived threat tends to hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That rises to 51% by age 70, reaches 58% by age 75, climbs to 64% by age 80 and approaches 73% by age 90.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Rowsell climbs onto the drum riser and steals Amey's bumblebee sunglasses while screaming into a megaphone.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

IBM stock climbs after an upgrade, driven by its software business, which contributes two-thirds of consolidated profit.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

She jumps from a wooden step, then climbs up an angled piece of lumber and jumps again.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

At an annual block party, they jumped around in a bouncy house and climbed into the local firetruck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Able to give out his address, officers who were first on the scene climbed over the back gate and started giving Stacey first aid, with paramedics arriving soon after.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Oil prices climbed through much of July, before sliding on Monday after the U.S. and Iran paused airstrikes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Gasoline prices have climbed above $4 a gallon as the Iran war disrupts energy markets, inflation remains elevated and interest rates are high.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Then I climbed the highest of the eewoonucks and fastened it to a hand pole I carried on the sled so that drivers could see it from the trail.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

This year it was Mathieu van der Poel, the powerhouse Dutchie who spent climbing stages eating gummi bears in the back of the race while Pogacar smashed away at the front.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Brown tree snakes have driven many of Guam's native forest birds to local extinction, and they cause hundreds of power outages each year by climbing utility poles and electrical equipment.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Long-term real rates, as measured by the Treasury Inflation-Indexed Long-Term Average Yield, are about 2.9% and have been steadily climbing with long-term nominal rates.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Obediently, Duane followed, with his heart beating faster, not just from the exertion of climbing the mountain but from the mounting fear inside him.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el




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