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I just happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right doctor and team.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
She said that as she stopped to take a photograph, her fiance went up a side street but by the time she had followed him he had disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The idea that anyone can suddenly be endowed with superhuman specialness simply by being in the right place at the right time is a little like daydreaming about winning the lottery.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He hit .287 with 20 homers in 2025 with his improved mechanics, earning a promotion to Double-A for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
She spends time learning carpentry and eventually builds her own desk.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
But as she starts training for 2028, Truwit knows even her national record times might not be enough to get on the podium in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The answer is 18 out of 34 times - so 53%.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The AI insisted several times that the passage existed, and even offered a page number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
For a brief period, the energy being released reached roughly 400 billion times the output of Earth's Sun, surpassing even the most powerful supernovae known to astronomers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
She was dangerously thin, I felt, for an expectant mother, and several times I brought her a portion of my own breakfast bread.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The company added it first moved from live traditional auctions to 24-hour timed auctions in 2007.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
And while Grande later insisted the break was pre-planned and not “reactive or impulsive,” there’s no doubt the announcement was timed to dull the cacophony of both the jeers and cheers.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The theme also dominated his six-minute farewell video timed to release after death.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
A second release, timed for that day, is unlikely because of how badly SpaceX’s stock has performed in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
He followed how the boy clicked his tongue like a snare, and timed his crisp hisses like sticks on brass hi-hats.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
That timing appears to be essential for producing enough mature oligodendrocytes to properly restore the damaged myelin sheath.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Administration officials say the rotation was prescheduled, but the timing is hard to ignore.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Analysts said the decline could partly be due to a shift in the timing of Amazon’s Prime Day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It was just the the timing ... and we both decided to record separately.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But when the hour was over, Don Luis insisted that I showed aptitude and suggested that in the future I should come at a different time because Papi’s hammering interfered with my timing.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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