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The collective efforts of the readers helped them get six correct results, with two exact scores, for 120 points.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Back when they had been doing this exact work, there was another landmark women’s rights battle that had been won just 50 years prior as well: the suffragists’ fight for the right to vote.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026

While the exact cause of the glacial collapse is unclear, climate change is causing glaciers to melt worldwide, heightening the risk of such disasters.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sanft showed the jury that, during a documentary interview in the area of the crime scene, Davis got the exact location of the shooting wrong.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Though they had gone the exact way that Clara had when she had paid rent, the office could not have looked more different.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

That all-important cold chain exacts a cost from growers and distributors as well.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Skating as much as Hughes does exacts a brutal toll, which is why it often looks like the Minnesota defenseman has an on/off switch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The hits come fast and furious after that, but the frenzy of tour life exacts a severe toll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

As is true for many things online — bullying, disinformation, conspiracy theories — when something is easy and “free,” it usually exacts a terrible, if largely hidden, cost.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Maybe Bastian exacts some final vendetta; maybe Frederick goes looking for his only way out.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But Belafonte’s celebrity exacted a toll, as he documented in a late-life autobiography that Mr. Jelly-Schapiro draws on heavily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Well, there are numerous contemporaneous examples of reparation payments exacted by European states, so you tell me.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The siege mentality of these gated communities exacted an immense human toll on employees, struggling for essentials like water or electricity.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

Still, the relationships with Epstein have exacted tolls.

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

The Aztecs flourished culturally, economically, militarily, and politically, but they faced growing rebellion by the peoples from whom they exacted tribute.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The good news is, per Gifford, that there are less generalized models out there that are tailored to much more exacting needs.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

His reputation as an exacting director precedes him.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Yet other, more controversial projects, exacting irreversible change to capital institutions, are facing greater opposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

"This action supports the welfare of American children by exacting real consequences for child support delinquency under existing federal law," the department said in a statement.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

And toward himself he was even more exacting.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright