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Lochner said she watched as immigrant agents took six or seven men at an Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Courtesy of Loves Food Loves to Eat and shared by Food52, this recipe serves two when eaten as a meal and four to six when enjoyed as a side.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
The chair was always able to negotiate support from his six fellow governors.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Some companies shell out six figures for high-end health insurance, doctor visits and concierge medicine for executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Although it is being pulled by four horses instead of the usual six, this is a New Hampshire-built Concord stagecoach, somewhere in Chile at about the time that Phineas Gage arrived there.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Instead, the evening session saw Bairstow produce an astonishing display of hitting, smashing 14 fours and seven sixes as he brought up a 77-ball hundred.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
We gather in sixes and eights for dinner at places chosen more for their decibels than their desserts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Brook hit four sixes and eight fours in his rapid innings, with fourth successive boundaries in Washington's eighth over.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
More Test sixes than any other man on the planet.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Then Mrs. Popper had to scrub and polish and straighten the whole place, for she was much too good a housekeeper to leave everything at sixes and sevens while the Poppers were away.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
