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The controversy prompted a public apology and the one-off early closure of the chain's more than 2,000 stores nationwide for staff education in June.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Twenty-eight jobs are at risk at the observatory, but its closure would also affect the work of nearly 3,000 scientists who use it in their research.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Campaigner George Seward said he was getting up at 05:00 BST and cruising until dark to get his narrowboat through the Atherstone flight of locks, after a sudden closure was announced.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Such a prolonged closure will send the more than 400,000 people who pour through the center’s turnstiles each year scrambling to find other places to swim, dive, play water polo and aqua-aerobicize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

At the start of 2007, Megan and Leila were struggling to find anything close to closure around Keith’s death.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Meanwhile, low prices last year prompted sawmill curtailments and closures from British Columbia to northern Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The closures have fuelled concern over the future of a sector that employs more than 4.5 million people, most of them women.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Alum Rock Union enrolls less than half of the students of its peak years in the early 2000s, and a $20-million budget shortfall in the 2024-25 school year resulted in multiple school closures and consolidations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Right-leaning Americans who had never been particularly civically engaged found themselves at city hall meetings or out in protests, furious about business closures and stay-at-home orders.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

She stanched the bleeding with wadded paper towels, then pulled out alcohol wipes and a pack of butterfly closures.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Theatres are facing lower sales from the cost-of-living crisis only a year after most re-opened following closured prompted by Covid lockdowns.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2022

Bad enough to have Members working off at public meetings speeches that had been closured in Commons.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

After another fight, the Government closured through an Appropriation Bill covering Supply for ten weeks, and the House was dissolved on 31st August, the election being fixed for 2nd October.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

The qualifying adjective 'good' is dangerous, and before the time for the bill was half expired, Bozzy has closured it and the amendment.

From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)

A further list of closured stations Elicits further protestations.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917 by Various