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The WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1% — down six of the past eight trading days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank was suspended without pay for six months for “his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Mr. Leonard and his family.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
As Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan turned in a two-hit gem over the course of six scoreless innings, De Paula carried the offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
A pewter tankard, a wooden junction box and a faded box containing six Christmas cards were included in the haul.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
One of the other adults in the group steps closer, away from the commotion, and asks for a table for six, and could they please sit outside, under the pavilion on the dock.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
He hit as many sixes as Sir Geoffrey Boycott did in his 108-Test career.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He also equalled Stokes' record for the most sixes in a Test played in England.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Jofra Archer cut a frustrated figure when Razaullah hit him for successive straight sixes and at one point Gus Atkinson was asked to bowl bouncers with eight fielders on the boundary.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Tongue went to a sustained bouncer plan, Shakeel swiped successive sixes, then a pull for four to move to 96.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
They were ranked by sixes, though, and so were constrained in their firing, only a few able to present at once; and the causeway afforded no cover.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
