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reading

[ree-ding] / ˈri dɪŋ /


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Reading Mr. Pielke’s op-ed reminded me of a remark by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Former winger Canoville, now 64, played for Chelsea for five years from 1981 and scored 15 goals in 103 games, later retiring because of a knee injury aged 25 after a short spell at Reading.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Reading the Westfall Act with close “attention to its text,” he concluded, shows that Congress has not precluded laws like Maine’s.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Arsalun Tafazoli, part of the team behind Raised by Wolves, has opened a members-only drinking spot, the Reading Club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Reading about that, I began getting some ideas of how we might live.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien