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[pair] / pɛər /




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The pair sought help by walking across the salt flats, before severe heat prevented the 68-year-old from continuing after 1.3 miles, according to the Death Valley National Park.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The pair opted last year to maintain its relationship with the streaming giant, signing another multiyear, first-look deal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

During the climb, the pair, clad in black outfits with their faces covered, unfurled a banner that read: "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

With Grief bouncing at his heels, he ambled down the winding driveway, past the pair of small barns, to his father's veterinary office.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

With its limestone mountains, bucolic valleys and scattered alpine villages, this Unesco World Heritage site pairs alpine charm with thrill-inducing adventure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Early on Wednesday, Moderna and Merck surprised investors when the two companies announced that their experimental therapeutic vaccine, which pairs Moderna’s intismeran autogene with Merck’s Keytruda, helped prevent the recurrence of melanoma in certain patients.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

A report said its members visited in pairs due to "feeling unsafe on the wings" and had noted doors and gates left open.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Sandweg estimates ICE could purchase 10,000 to 15,000 pairs of gloves.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

I had read somewhere that white sharks were solitary creatures, crossing great distances alone, but that sometimes they swam in pairs.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Ukraine's Elina Svitolina has paired up with husband Gael Monfils in the Frenchman's final Grand Slam before retirement.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

He was later released on a $5,000 bond, which paired with the $1,000 bond he was already out on for a harassment charge he incurred in Montgomery County on Nov. 18, 2025.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

The dishes themselves are constantly changing—past offerings have included a reimagined s’more made from an aerated dark-chocolate rock with graham-cracker ganache and burnt meringue, which was paired with strawberry amaro milk.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Using that approach and techniques developed during their 2023 research, Belk and her colleagues compared immune cells from paired blood and brain samples.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

The boys paired off for safety and fanned out in separate directions.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The team focused on improving quality and pairing down some assortment to tidy stores, said this person.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

DPC providers often recommend pairing membership with a high-deductible health plan that has a lower monthly premium.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

It hasn’t been the nightmare pairing so many predicted — at least not for opponents.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

But she also noted that Gen Z was pairing them with running shorts, or otherwise finding new ways to wear them.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Many would later liken the pairing of Morrow and Halliday to that of Jobs and Wozniak or Lennon and McCartney.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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