house
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She had needed to go to the toilet during class and Abah had intercepted her in the school gardens and asked her to accompany him to his house which was on the premises.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
A similarly large decline occurred in pellets from termites fed Douglas fir, a wood commonly used for house framing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
People like it, she says, because they feel like they’ve been invited over to her house.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Last week’s calls from inside the house that A.I. companies are at risk of losing control of their monsters and killing everyone—true or not!—have continued to sweep the news.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
A local could tell her how to get back on the road and get to her aunt and uncle’s house and get to frying.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Paul Kinghan is seeking £147,162 from the museum which houses the world-famous hydroplane – the Ruskin Museum in Coniston.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Recently, driving through the city of Frostproof, where he grew up, Rucks pointed toward the railroad tracks, once lined with citrus packing houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
In a cyberwar, the United States has much bigger stones but much glassier houses.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
At intervals of 20 years and sometimes more often, it has lashed and splashed us, turned our living rooms into muddy aquariums, swept away our cars and houses, and sometimes hundreds of Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The tall houses were packed together along one side of the street like a line of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Only Ross Cameron, co-founder of Lyric Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on music royalties, housed on four, responded.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Leory's sister Natalie Douglas has launched a petition for to him be housed closer to home, calling on the justice system to correct "part of the years' worth of oversight".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
County supervisors have pushed to shut down the facility, but plans for how to close the jail and questions of what would happen to the inmates housed there have delayed action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
At Yangshuo Sugar House, a luxury resort housed in a former sugar mill, rooms start at around $300 a night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The tower was made of wood and housed a large iron smokestack, which vented three boilers located in the main building below.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The trade-offs they and others are making are the counterpoint to today’s seemingly impossible housing market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I think SB79 was meant for cities that absolutely oppose all housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Smaller homes can offer buyers a more affordable way into today’s difficult housing market, but there’s a catch: Homes with two bedrooms or fewer made up just 14% of listings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
But I believe in building housing with communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Mike Burry believed he had to place this bet now, before the U.S. housing market woke up and was restored to sanity.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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