contract
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Ford Motor is pursuing its largest military contract since the Cold War to build the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Welbeck signed a 12-month contract extension in March, with his current deal running until the end of the 2026-27 season.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The larvae can alter the pH of the sac walls, causing the resilin to expand or contract.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ford’s Defense Department contract will see the automaker develop prototypes based on its F-Series super-duty pickups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dr. Rohmer grew as pale as the paper of his unsigned contract.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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Lyle Cherneff: Maryland historian Richard Paul Fugate estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 children, in the first weeks after emancipation alone, were re-enslaved through these fraudulent indenture contracts.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Joshua and Fury have signed separate contracts with Alalshikh, who is financing the fight.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The best-positioned companies are those whose data-center revenue is generated from customers under long-term contracts that involve direct payment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude’s front-month contracts fell on Monday after the U.S. paused launching attacks at Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
So they were overwhelmingly solo practitioners, handling wills and divorces and contracts and minor disputes, and in the Depression the work of the solo practitioner all but disappeared.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Yates, 33, has been a loyal domestique to Pogacar since 2023, and is contracted for another two seasons.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
PulteGroup’s home sales margin contracted to 25% from 27% in the year-earlier quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The company reported $29 billion in remaining performance obligations, a measure of contracted business yet to be recognized as revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Her paternal grandmother, Anita, was less fortunate; she contracted COVID-19 from a home healthcare aide and died in a hospital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The throbbing head, the swollen eyes, the tight, contracted throat.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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These are examples of a Big Tech hyperscaler contracting directly for power.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
None of those justifications appear to apply here, according to contracting experts and former staffers consulted by ProPublica.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Manning's earlier research has explored whether digit ratio can provide information about alcohol consumption, outcomes after contracting COVID-19, and oxygen consumption in footballers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
“However, a 7% year-over-year increase in resale contracts during the quarter points to a meaningful acceleration in contracting activity over late May and June,” Forsyth Barr says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
These would convert the hydrogen into more helium, and the heat given off would raise the pressure, and so stop the clouds from contracting any further.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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