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If there is a question to be answered about England's side, it is who will fill the seamer slots in the XI.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yachts akin to floating palaces fill the marina, celebrity chefs jet in for residencies at local restaurants and Pampelonne Beach morphs into a sandy catwalk with seasonal beach clubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the heart of the Yopougon industrial zone on the outskirts of the capital Abidjan, women working on a production line fill thousands of bottles of shea butter-based cosmetics.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
To fill Ohtani’s spot in the rotation this week, the Dodgers moved right-hander Emmet Sheehan’s start to Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
At their camp near the base of a bluff alongside the Green River, Buzz began to fill their backpacks for another day of hiking, trying to lighten their load as much as possible.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
That’s where a frozen yogurt spot fills a big void.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
A clown paints children's faces, music fills the air, as families spread picnic carpets across the grass.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Chandra's X-ray observations add the glowing red cloud of superheated gas that fills the cluster.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026
Families have gone back home, shops have reopened and traffic once again fills the streets.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Or, maybe, he loves the burnt air that fills your throat and lungs, day in and day out?
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The second sheet becomes the pastry course: crisp little cups filled with jewel-toned summer jam and crowned with swoops of citrus-whipped ricotta.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Some 20 football fields of exhibition space were filled with hardware trying to apply AI to everyday life, such as earbuds that listen to a meeting and produce a transcript.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The hole in Sunset Blvd. will then be filled and the street repaired, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
It may have come from a distant region of the outer Solar System filled with rocky debris, or from the outer part of the asteroid belt near Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
In an instant every bench would be filled, the only sound the businesslike rattle of radio parts.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But ahead of his first address on Monday, the incoming prime minister has remained coy about who will be filling the top roles in his cabinet.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In a small, light-filled room near the top of the Laurel Canyon home where she’s lived since 1962, Saar spends the morning filling sketchbooks with watercolors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The cost of filling up at the gas station is not the only problem, either.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“This is normal good governance practice for filling a critical position at a highly regulated and complex global institution, even when there’s an internal candidate.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I need to think, Res,” he will say before filling the air around us with sound, with music.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
