bay
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Though no charges have been filed against Walter or anyone associated with his businesses, one could imagine Walter pulling the trigger on the Dodgers sale simply to keep the feds at bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Distressed wood tables and cushioned couches overlook the bay with capacity for about 100 guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The government previously identified, external that "nutrients from outside the bay, run-off from streams that contain fertiliser and treated waste water from the water treatment works' all normally contribute to the growth of sea lettuce".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The bay duiker antelope, for example, gives birth to offspring that weigh about as much as the estimated newborn C. theotonicus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
She explained that a flock of geese had flown over the bay and regaled the coastal birds with the amazing story of the wild robot and her son, the goose.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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River otters are not to be confused with sea otters, which live in the ocean, bays and harbors and can grow to be up to five feet and 100 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
He uses fans in the bays for the mechanics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The effort includes a partnership with Ford in Detroit, where Bloomberg and the automaker are kicking in $2.5 million each, partly to fund new auto-repair bays for high schoolers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Some of the bays on the rooftop are partially covered with canopies.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Back he went, right up into their faces, where he pestered them with yelling bays and false rushes till they couldn’t stand it.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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A tri-colored package of personality-plus, Uno quickly bayed his way to fan favorite.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
This sent noise levels in the Commons through the roof as Conservative MPs bayed across the chamber at the Labour leader.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2018
He waved, then disappeared inside, but the crowds bayed for more until he reappeared at the first-floor window of No 10, along with Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor, and Winston Churchill, the minister of munitions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2018
On a recent afternoon this summer, while her loyal dogs bayed outside, Laura Mathews sat at the dining table in her spacious suburban home with tears in her hazel eyes.
From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 8, 2014
Caleb bayed and Ma Charles told him to hush but Caleb kept making his noise and the chickens squawked on and on.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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That entire pseudo-event was one one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments that get drowned out in the endless baying insanity of our collective reality.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
There was nothing more the Swiss racer could do to reel in Franzoni's time in a race held in front of tens of thousands of baying fans in overcast conditions.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Later, “Dance of the Reed Flutes” becomes a sleazy, vaudevillian show tune sung by an anthropomorphic Rat King to his loyal subjects, a group of baying rodents dressed like SS officers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The Springboks can take down the home team in front of an expected 78,000 baying French fans on the outskirts of Paris.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds ricocheted across parlours, three-cushion shooting from right wall to centre wall to left wall, gone, right wall, centre wall, left wall, gone!
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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