contact
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For the next two hours, anchors and reporters covered the story while informing viewers of a grim fact: The station had lost contact with its Chopper 4 crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"We knew it was a news chopper. We knew we'd lost contact with our people out there, and we've just received confirmation," Williams said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The VAR gets super-focused on Haaland," said Webb, who had already been in contact with Manchester United to share the VAR audio and video.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Archaeological evidence indicates that the hunter-gatherers living around Lake Baikal had close contact with marmots - large burrowing rodents that still carry plague today.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
To catch it, you must be part of the 5 percent of the population without immunity, and you must be in prolonged physical contact with someone who is sick.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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As soon as she notices a seat switch, she contacts the airline for a fix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Several kinds of brain cells also showed fewer interactions between nearby sections of the genome and more contacts between regions located farther apart.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
His visit comes six years after a deadly military clash along the disputed Tibetan border between China and India, with ties gradually improving through restored flights, visas and high-level contacts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“All of his documented contacts with currently active gang members are about trying to stop violence,” Garcia-Leys said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In total, Penkovsky had passed nearly ten thousand pages of secrets on Soviet strengths and weaknesses to his American and British contacts.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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He said that Kraft had contacted Sheeran to tell him the rapper would not be allowed on stage and alleged that Kraft had rallied other venues to demand his exclusion.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
BBC News has contacted the police for comment.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
According to the FBI, scammers contacted victims through social media and lured them with promises of high returns and little risk.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
That’s what the scammer who contacted you is hoping for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Grover’s alive, I’m sure. There must be a simple reason why he hasn’t contacted us.”
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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The EU wants children's accounts to remain private, with "risky settings" disabled by default and unknown users prevented from contacting minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Spivey earlier told the BBC she had tried contacting Jackson police several times over the last two weeks, leaving multiple voicemails, and had not heard back.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
These included declaring relationships to his probation officer and not contacting previous victims.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Fish and Wildlife Service if you suspect someone is trafficking wildlife by contacting 1-844-FWS-TIPS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
I should have realized he would be at her apartment, but I really had no way of contacting him there.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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