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Several other Republican candidates already have announced plans to run for his Senate seat.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The core rate is a better predictor of inflation trends in the long run.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The broader semiconductor sector followed suit, with shares of Micron, Intel, Marvell, and ARM Holdings all shedding 4% or more as investors questioned whether the dizzying AI trade has more room to run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
His father, Jim Thome, ranks eighth on the career home run list with 612 and was a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She’d often told me she couldn’t manage without me to run errands up and down the steep stairs.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Luke had Tommy John surgery after two years pitching for Dallas Baptist, then batted .337 with 16 home runs as a designated hitter last spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The company argued the merger would create a stronger rival to Netflix, Amazon and Apple, and pledged to release at least 30 films a year for full theatrical runs with a minimum 45-day window.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Ignace Lecleir, founder of the TRB Hospitality Group, which runs eight high-end Beijing restaurants serving Chinese-made foie gras, said there is “definitely a much higher demand than before.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"They're in an environment that's really unfamiliar to them, and we're applying pressure in a number of different ways," says Matt Johns, who founded Fieri, the company which runs this course.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Wes runs in the opposite direction and then turns the corner, out of my sight.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But by 2016, when he briefly ran for president, the politics had changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some people mistakenly ran into the restrooms and lost consciousness when they were looking for another escape route, authorities said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A former military lawyer who reached the rank of colonel in the Air Force, Graham ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The club ran for three days, run by travel company Run Weekends and McNamara described it as "welcoming" and "lovely with great vibes" as everyone ran together at a slow pace.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Betsie and I ran across the street to help him.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Congress has intervened in the past to prevent Social Security from running out of funds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
For example, huge productivity gains from AI could mean “you’re actually laying off workers rather than running after them” despite the shrinking labor pool, said Acemoglu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The dataset combined information from long running aging studies in 14 locations, including the United States, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, four regions of Europe, Korea, Mexico, China, Malaysia, Brazil, and India.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
In some competitive races, Democratic men running for Senate are engaging with the masculinity debate.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mutti told him and told him that Marlene would just keep on running, that she would be terrified, that no one would be able to catch her, except one of us.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
