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The company said it lost $99m in the first three months of the year, compared with a net income of $395m a year earlier.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The Canadian Climate Institute, a policy research organization, said earlier this year that Canada isn’t on track to meet its climate goals, including a 2035 target and net zero emissions by 2050.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
For the year ended April 30, revenue was flat at $3.9 billion, and net income fell 18%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The Boston Fed found that labor-productivity gains, and investments in new equipment and production processes, offset the tariff impact, leaving a net inflation contribution of just half a percentage point.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Jonah caught the ball as it fell through the net.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Each consisted of a conical plastic container with a netted bottom and held one queen along with 60 worker bees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
A third-and-six pass to rookie CJ Daniels netted only two yards and the Rams settled for a field goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Al-Dabba and his sons, donning protective netted hats and wielding metal bee smokers, gently inspect the neat rows of teeming hives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Hogh netted the same number in the same tournament as Bodo/Glimt defied the odds to reach the last 16.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In this hot noonday the trees of the Belt were looped and netted with darkest shadow.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Hugo Ekitike scored his first of 17 goals in his debut season for Liverpool - but Jeremie Frimpong did not enjoy a great first campaign after netting.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Near a petrol station draped in anti-drone netting, an employee casually smoked a cigarette, waiting for the alert to be over.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“You know, their story is quite similar to how women in England weren’t allowed to play football for years,” observed Higgins, netting a doubtful reaction from the museum’s forbearing docent.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Salvadoran referee Iván Barton immediately pointed to the spot and Oyarzabal stepped up and obliged, beating French keeper Mike Maignan into the side netting at the right post for his fifth goal of the tournament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In its new camouflage netting, it glittered silver like an extremely flashy forty-foot-tall ghost.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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