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[sawrs, sohrs] / sɔrs, soʊrs /


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The deal would value the gaming studio at more than $1.5 billion, a source familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

“It’s a place to help veterans work through the VA, to help veterans job source, to help veterans come together for Taco Tuesdays and breakfasts and dinners,” Chandler says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Both states have asked DHS to provide the source of the numbers.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

According to Goepfert, there is no one official source for the stock-market breadth data used in tracking the Omen.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

“One day he came in and saw that someone had left the weights on the Smith machine, in the gym,” says a seventh source, in Connecticut.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It says that the RAF's £50,000 "wildfire buckets for dropping water" are 2,000 miles away, citing military sources.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Agency sources told ProPublica that the rolls of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were searched using the Athena Toolbox.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

A British government report released last month predicts “major sources of pressure on public finances over the next 50 years” as social spending consumes an ever-growing share of GDP.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Those sources are not as bright as MoM-BH*-1, but they may share the same basic structure.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

John Quincy’s network of European sources also urged enlightened procrastination.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Taylor said in mid-July it had voluntarily removed all of its iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the U.S. market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Still, he said, steeper prices are worth it for the peace of mind he feels knowing the food was sourced locally.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

The current pair were sourced from Whitby's twin town of Barrow in Alaska after a worldwide appeal.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Taylor Farms also issued a recall that day of all iceberg lettuce sourced from Central Mexico from a certain time period.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

David Woolcock, curator at Paradise Park, said staff were pleased to be sourcing the fish locally.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

We are also looking at sourcing savings, from where we source, who we source from, how many of our operating companies source a particular item and renegotiating contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Becker said he’s focused on evidence of price gouging in California specifically, where a small handful of refineries serve a relatively isolated market with limited alternatives for sourcing fuel.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"Retailers are experienced in managing supply disruptions and will take all necessary steps, including sourcing from alternative suppliers where appropriate, to minimise any impact on customers."

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Her people, of several shapes and sizes, sourcing from an amalgam of many human races of divergent strains from several near-forgotten planets, all sighed together, like a little wind of sadness.

From The Dark Goddess by Richard Sharpe Shaver




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