eclipse
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In the UK, we will be able to see a partial eclipse when the Moon will cover around 90% of the Sun at its peak.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
This would eclipse all other major job-cutting drives in the auto industry, notably Detroit-based General Motors's move to cut almost 50,000 jobs in 2009 as it declared bankruptcy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Pickford equalled Peter Shilton's record of 17 World Cup appearances and was instrumental in ensuring he will now eclipse it against Norway.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
That would comfortably eclipse last quarter’s backlog of $99.4 billion as well as Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $104.4 billion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Although total in Portugal, it was only a partial eclipse in Copenhagen.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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When the Sun, Earth and Moon align near one of the points where their orbital paths intersect, eclipse seasons occur, producing both solar and lunar eclipses within a matter of weeks.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Some claims suggest that eclipses can trigger earthquakes due to the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The £262m deficit for 2024-25 eclipses the £179.5m lost by Manchester City in 2011.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
It was not in keeping with the prejudices of the time to explain the phases or eclipses of the Moon by the relative geometry of the Earth, the Moon and the self-luminous Sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Nationally, measles cases have nearly eclipsed last year’s total already and the country is poised to hit its highest case level since the late 1980s and early ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Never in NBA history have there been two players on the same team whose combined career on-court earnings eclipsed the billion-dollar mark.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
At the time, the Iaquinta fight was eclipsed by the exact kind of theatrics that the UFC values and that increasingly overshadow the sport itself.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
They are eclipsed only by a recall campaign earlier this decade by Hyundai Motor over a similar fire risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was a space eclipsed by a century-old maple tree that dropped mountains of leaves every year from October to December.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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The Switzerland international moves to Villa Park in a deal eclipsing the £50m Villa paid Everton for Amadou Onana two years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
SpaceX’s market capitalization reached $2.8 trillion on Tuesday, eclipsing e-commerce giant Amazon, and made SpaceX the fifth largest public company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Growth is expected in 2026, and Wall Street sees Tesla eclipsing its 2022 earnings-per-share peak of about $4 in 2029, when analysts expect close to $7 per share.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Average prices had fallen below seven figures for the previous seven quarters after first eclipsing the million-dollar mark in mid-2023, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The light of day revealed fall’s early brilliance, chartreuse, gold, and orange leaves eclipsing the dark green of summer.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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