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These uplifts are welcome, KBW says, but otherwise the focus on growth and efficiency is little changed from previous plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
"There were little events on outside the stadium," Shea recalled.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
It requires little imagination to see how much worse things might have been without the economic guardrails already in place.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
“But if I open this little jar and build bridges, it will be difficult to eliminate it because it will be integrated into the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Finally Phineas takes a job plowing for a farmer near the little town of Santa Clara.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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It is not a situation Sir Jim Ratcliffe can have expected to find himself in again, less than three years after purchasing a minority stake in United.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
“It would be a less drastic step than selling the home now and splitting the proceeds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Mukunda is confident that, without Huang, the company would be worth far less than it is currently, if it even were to exist at all.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
They are working on bean varieties that need less water.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
The Spanish-American War lasted less than three months, with Spain losing several land and naval battles.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Analysts, however, expected Barrera to consolidate the votes of Democrats and predicted that the support of CTA, and other unions to a lesser extent, would make a difference for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Analysts, however, expected Barrera to consolidate the votes of Democrats and predicted the support of CTA, and other unions to a lesser extent, would make a difference for Barrera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
If customs officials checked on the car parts as they entered Brazil, they would see Porsche had logged 040 as scrapped—and seemingly of lesser value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The judge described Banica and Moco as having lesser roles in the organisation.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
A lesser detective would have moved on to a case that made more sense.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Though Disneyland Park’s littler and much younger sibling, the park has grown into a respectable offering, one that ranks among my favorite Disney parks in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
The new paper adds an additional seven dark comets to the list, including bigger ones that inhabit the outer solar system and littler ones that remain in the inner solar system.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024
Behind that was a still littler barn, which looked queer in Pennsylvania where barns were usually ten times bigger than their houses.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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Logan estimated that the Fed funds rate must rise by "at least 50 basis points" in order "to bring the inflation trend back to target," she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
At least 1,350 offenders have left jail early since 1 October under the first two waves of the scheme.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
The company had previously guided for gross profit margin to reach at least 65%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
“I thought, ‘I’d love to give this group of kids a chance to watch at least a little bit of these movies in their own language.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Every year Dad would walk out of the fairgrounds with at least one human-sized stuffed something or other on his shoulders, and every year all of us would hate Mom for being such a downer.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
"He always has time to chat with every little one and has the ability to charm even the littlest of children who may be a little shy of a big man in a red suit."
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
And the three littlest Grasso kids swarmed around her bed.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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