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For a while, Krishna, an IBM lifer, seemed to be pulling off the middle-ground balancing act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

In April 1985, Wham! landed in Beijing to begin a historic tour, becoming the first Western pop act to perform in communist China.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

He walks over to the cat and picks him up, and in previous adaptations of this story, this might signal that a disturbing act of animal cruelty is about to happen.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

They have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of your brother’s estate.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

I know at some level that the act of poring over the files is unseemly.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He seemed to savor the chance to go deeper, to look more closely at our innate capacity for acts both moral and depraved.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

In findings published in Science Advances, the team showed that the MPS acts as a physical gatekeeper for nearly every major type of endocytosis.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, before being re-arrested on Monday on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“We know that temperatures are warming in the long term, linked to human-caused climate change, and El Niño acts to boost those temperatures temporarily,” climate scientist Zachary Labe of the nonprofit Climate Central said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Beside it the poster's heliograms were now frozen, the projections of her different characters and acts silent and still.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"We believe public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests."

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Phosphate, an essential nutrient for marine life, acted as a hidden regulator of Earth's carbon cycle for the last 60 million years, although its exact role had not been fully understood.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

“We are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests,” Taco Bell said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

When Social Security came close to running out of money in the early 1980s, Congress acted — at the 11th hour.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Maybe Maya-Jade acted like a know-it-all because she did know it all.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The pair, who met as schoolboys in Bushey, Hertfordshire, found themselves acting as unlikely cultural ambassadors, introducing western pop music to audiences unfamiliar with it.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The acting AG and two justices appeared before lawmakers this week.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026

Following Fedorov's removal, Zelensky announced Thursday he had appointed Yevgeniy Khmara -- head of Ukraine's SBU security service -- as acting defence minister.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

It was 1977, and Steenburgen — an Arkansas native — had been waiting tables in New York at night while studying acting with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse during the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“The war. It’s getting bad. Look how people are acting here. And where’s your friend, that girl Marion? What happened to her?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin