slate
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The Lakers announced their preseason schedule Tuesday with the five-game slate beginning Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Defense Department recently approved a slate of firms including SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for usage of their AI models and other technology in classified settings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But that only lasted a few months before he decided to revive Thotsakan – the band's "phase two" – with a new slate of musicians.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
On the other hand, if you’re a household facing extreme medical debt, steep credit-card bills or other large unsecured debt balances, then bankruptcy could offer a path to a clean financial slate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Its sides were mangy with the scars of logging, and the lower slopes were pitted with slate and marble quarries.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Under Italian corporate rules, shareholders vote for competing slates of directors rather than individual candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The positive results -- up 23 percent year-on-year -- come as theater owners prepare to gather in Las Vegas for their annual CinemaCon meeting, where studios offer a sneak peak of their upcoming slates.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
They’re not cardboard cutouts, exactly, but they’re blank enough slates for us to project onto.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
The house feels like it’s shaking, too, the wind screaming, tearing at the slates on the roof.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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The National Weather Service’s heat advisory was slated to begin 10 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Utz said the founding Rice and Lissette family will still own half of the company upon completion of the deal, slated to close by the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
One new program with $4.9 million of competitive funding available to groups to develop “civilizational self-confidence in Europe” is slated for “research, conferences, cultural engagements, and support for civil society” in wealthy democracies.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Valero is among the refiners slated to benefit the most, Selesky said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The meeting with War Admiral, slated for the Washington Handicap, was just two weeks away.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The Legislature voted this year to ban most private detention facilities in the state, slating the detention center for closure in 2025, when its contract with the federal government ends.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
However, I’m just not into slating Madonna and not just because I’m heartily sick of everyone else doing so.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2018
Network executives were already tinkering with the reinvention, but slating “Nashville” for a January premiere helped speed up the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2017
She skipped Thursday’s candidate slating, saying party leaders haven’t favored her before and weren’t going to pick her.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
A widowed sister-in-law looks after his house for him and her sons manage the business of slating which is connected with the trade in slate and is scarcely inferior to it in size.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
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