activity
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It operates a network of so-called jack-up barges—floating platforms used to support offshore wind farms and oil-and-gas maintenance activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Maher said there has been "quite a bit of activity" in state legislatures to approve and reauthorise other methods of execution since Trump began expressing enthusiasm for the death penalty.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization call for approximately 150 minutes of moderate physical activity each week.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Just moving a little each day helps. Light activity counts too. Doing something is better than doing nothing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Gestapo were astonished that teenagers had conducted such resistance activity.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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For every $1 invested in protecting or restoring nature, about $30 still goes into activities that degrade it, according to UN figures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
He has returned to his normal activities while continuing to attend regular follow-up appointments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
McVay said he wants to see how Garrett’s knee responds positively to football-related activities and drills, that “put him in a position to join the group and be the guy that we’re accustomed to seeing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
“The law, sometimes we think it doesn’t matter to China, but it does,” said Ray Powell, executive director at the SeaLight Foundation, which tracks Chinese activities around the South China Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The U.S. government, Snowden explained, was secretly monitoring the phone and Internet activities of millions of Americans.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ity, -ty
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