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Another star drug, Dupixent, will begin to lose patent protection in the early 2030s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Models suggest the heat will begin building again after Wednesday, although conditions are expected to be less muggy, according to forecasters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Today's action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere," his statement said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
"You don't just learn that something is a planet; you immediately begin learning about its temperature, chemistry, and motion."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
But I’ve already done the hardest part of accepting Theo’s help—I’ve told him the story of why I need help to begin with.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Thus begins the story of Alexander Selkirk—the real Robinson Crusoe, who for 4½ years lived alone on an uninhabited island with nothing but rats, cats and goats to keep him company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood that begins in the bone marrow, which varies based on the type of blood cell affected and the stage of the disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Without getting too complicated into how volatility is calculated, consider this scenario: You’re a money manager and the stock market begins to implode in August.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The second men's Test at Lord's begins on 30 June and the third at Edgbaston on 8 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He might have visited them already, in fact, but I won’t have a way of checking in with him before my evening shift begins.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Araki, like directors Richard Linklater and Todd Haynes, then began a long relationship with the Sundance Film Festival right when the indie boom of the ’90s was taking off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mendelsohn learned of Freundlich’s plans for a solar observatory in 1917, while serving on the Russian front, and he began to draw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Seattleites, however, can attest that Burning Man’s ruin began long ago, pretty much since Microsofties and Amazonians invaded it in the early aughts.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
"As suddenly as you began, you stopped, your anger evaporated, and then you dozed off."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
An abandoned sugar plantation on the marshy banks of the Mississippi River seems an unlikely place for a world-class hospital, but that’s exactly where Carville began.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
She said she had begun to feel "surrounded" by the advancing flames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
The artificial-intelligence revolution has begun to benefit Intel because the next wave to AI technology—AI agents completing tasks for users—relies on the central processing units, or CPUs, that are the company’s specialty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The team has begun working toward commercialization through its start-up company, Mintech-Bio, with the goal of developing an initial product for clinical use.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The school day had begun as usual, Amaineh says.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
And not a hundred yards after they had begun walking west again, the roar of a military Huey helicopter flying low meant that they would make it out alive.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
But when that risk spikes, the spread quickly widens — as it did in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and again in 2022-23.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Lin and Ramachandran advise patients to speak with a physician before beginning a GLP-1 medication and to remain under medical supervision while using it.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
So when it hit Nick Palmiter at the beginning of July, he didn't think much of it.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The unincorporated area, carved out of the Florida wilderness in the 1950s, mushroomed beginning in the 1990s, cratered during the 2007-10 subprime-mortgage crisis and has been climbing its way back since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
I had a hard time breathing, and I realized what should have been obvious to me from the beginning.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
