commute
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Her lawyers repeated a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute Pike's sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
At the time, Ortega and her parents rented a small apartment in Los Angeles rather than making the lengthy commute from La Quinta each day.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
As transit networks grow, cities around the world are actively cracking down on bad behaviour to ensure a peaceful commute for all passengers.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
He will remain based in Miami and commute to Menlo Park and San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“You look so deep in thought. You’ve been looking that way more and more lately. I would say ever since Grandma came,” Dad says, pulling me back inside the car for our morning commute.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Whitesides said creating high-paying local jobs is a major priority, as members of his district have some of the longest commutes in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Street signs boast of "generations of Egyptian-Chinese friendship flowing like the Nile River", while residents have been warned to plan for substantial traffic delays on their commutes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Now, an agent pulls updates from the most relevant 100 public channels and turns them into a podcast that employees can listen to on their commutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Years into trying different carrots and sticks, many companies are finding out that they need to offer more than free donuts to get employees to embrace long commutes in places like Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Full-time jobs, commutes, and children or parents who need care often get in the way.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Two years later, the high court commuted his death sentence.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Pierce-Quinonez grew up in Berkeley, Calif., and Morton grew up in rural New Jersey, where his dad commuted two hours each way to his job in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He later served time in prison, pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges, but President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was imprisoned in Florida, but his sentence was commuted by President Johnson, partly for assistance during an outbreak of illness in the prison.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Tammy Gerber of local campaign group Buses4Us said the difference between capped and uncapped fares could run to £1,200 a year for someone commuting five days a week in the county.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
America’s office market has seen four straight quarters of occupancy gains, JLL Research said, noting that “cities and office buildings are active again and commuting activity continues to increase.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
They only have one car and avoid the area’s brutal traffic by commuting to work by public transportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
I’d taken a temporary job building out a marketing team, commuting to L.A. every Sunday through Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Reston is situated within easy commuting distance of downtown Washington.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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