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Four years earlier, another stowaway fell from a Heathrow-bound plane on to a nearby gasworks.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Compared with a year earlier, raw material prices climbed 33.4%, led by sharp increases for conventional crude oil, gold, silver and platinum group metals, and synthetic crude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

To be exit liquidity is to be the person whose purchase of an asset lets earlier investors cash out, often just before the price collapses.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

If you do feel you need to take your Social Security earlier, do it.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

As it turned out, despite what Papa had said earlier, we didn’t talk about Hannie being brought home by two policemen.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler