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The funding initiative passed, but by the embarrassingly narrow 10-vote margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
His positional versatility allows him to play as a narrow winger on both the left and right side of attack, before making runs akin to a centre-forward.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Instead of relying only on the planet's visible brightness, the scientists isolated narrow molecular signals that are characteristic of a planetary atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Salary-transparency laws can “help narrow pay gaps and reduce wage discrimination” among demographic groups including women and people of color, said Keith Spencer, a career expert at ResumeNow.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
There was a dusty little road leading into the woods, but soon it became a narrow, rocky trail, which twisted and wound until I thought I might be going in circles.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Charter shed 21,000 net video subscribers in the period, although that was a narrower loss than the 80,000 one posted in the year-earlier quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Seismologist Lucy Jones has a narrower definition, in which there are two earthquakes in the same seismic sequence within 0.4 units of magnitude of each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Their focus is on a narrower question: Does consciousness have to depend on Earth-style biology?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
While annual deficits are narrower than 15 years ago, they are more persistent and more entrenched in national behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
They turned onto a narrower road and kept driving.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
It’s important to appreciate that the students pressed for the narrowest, most modest ruling possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
"It tends to be in the narrowest area of the channel between Deganwy and the beacons."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Kevin Warsh was confirmed as the Federal Reserve’s 17th chair Wednesday with a 54–45 vote, the narrowest margin since 1977.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
For comparison, the strait itself is 29 nautical miles wide at its narrowest point.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
A large branch was washed up into the bank, and he hauled it up to the narrowest place and laid it bank to bank.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Burrows modeled the notion of directing as a duty to truly bring a show’s cast and writing into people’s living rooms and lives, epitomizing the idea that laughter narrows the distance between strangers.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
High blood sugar impairs immune function and narrows vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood, making it harder for skin to heal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The road narrows next to the building which the council said meant complete closure was necessary for some of the work.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Conversely, the gap narrows significantly among younger children.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
When the tunnel we’re in narrows to a locked grate, he plucks two pins from my hair and picks the lock in seconds.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Since then, conditions in the private-credit market have deteriorated even more, but the junk spread has narrowed rather than widened — to 2.68 percentage points from 2.80.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The researchers then narrowed the search to genes that produce proteins secreted outside the cell, a common feature of hormones, and that contained at least four possible cleavage sites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Edwards Lifesciences EW -0.65%decrease; down pointing triangle narrowed its full-year sales guidance after recording double-digit growth in the latest quarter, boosted by growth in its transcatheter aortic valve replacement division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Kimi K3 gained attention around the world after it was unveiled last week, with many believing it to have narrowed the gap between Western and Chinese AI models.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Churro bared his teeth and snapped at her, and Natalie narrowed her eyes at him.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Yet the range between what employers say they’ll pay and what they actually pay has been narrowing, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The district also called attention to progress in closing the achievement gap, saying there were “accelerated gains among historically underserved students who are narrowing achievement gaps and improving at rates that exceed overall district growth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Michigan state health officials are narrowing in on lettuce as a possible culprit in the rapidly expanding explosive-diarrhea outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But MS Hwang, a research analyst at Counterpoint Research, said he did not see "evidence that the gap between suppliers' production capacity and customers' demand is narrowing".
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
In truth, Ashley has tricked herself into thinking she’s “allergic” to a number of things, as a way of narrowing down her diet.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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