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Write guidance such as “Don’t begin responses by praising the question, idea or plan. Just answer it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
After three seasons at LSU, Rodriguez moved to California to begin her beach volleyball career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The second phase will begin early next year and cover "higher-value firearms" valued above AUS$3,000, capped at AUS$10,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
At a certain point, the alerts begin to blur together.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I suggest we begin our forest journey as soon as we can. It will be noon in about an hour, by my reckoning."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
The new Tokyo route begins in late March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Fantasy Premier League season begins on Friday 21 August so, to help managers as you tinker with your teams before the deadline, we've gone through all 20 teams and analysed some of their assets.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
United take on AC Milan and Villa face Borussia Monchengladbach in their final pre-season games on Saturday, before the new Premier League campaign begins next weekend.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Left-hander Eric Lauer, who could be odd man out when the postseason begins, pitches well as Dodgers sweep the Royals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Durme, durme, sin ansia y dolor,” he begins softly.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
As the procession began, Total Eclipse of the Heart could be heard playing on the busy street, as crying fans broke into applause.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The trust fund fight began in June, when Reiner first petitioned for the money in probate court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
To break out of their rut, they began working their way through the cuisines of every country in the world at local restaurants and documenting their experience on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
He began studying the Tar Pits' relatively understudied reptile and amphibian collections while working there as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Others began peeking from the earth, dotting the soil in gray and pink and blue.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
There, she’d begun to plant her roots in an artistic community, spending most of the last year and some change nestled in with her new flock of bohemian neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The state's forest department has since begun investigating how the gibbon came to be at a private home and whether rules governing its possession and transfer were followed.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
You don’t understand, they said, it has already begun!
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
In Hamilton County, just north of Indianapolis, officials said Sunday water was beginning to recede as they began recovery efforts across cities in the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
After Ohtani received a lubricating Orthovisc injection in his knee at the beginning of the All-Star break, the Dodgers hoped he would pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 22.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
But the company’s AI strategy has faced internal culture clashes and organizational hurdles since the very beginning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
"There's no doubt the Taliban would like to be recognised at the UN but it's no longer as potent a bargaining chip as it was at the beginning," they assess.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Sela reached into her bag and took out a small oval piece of hide, a strawberry in red and shades of pink just beginning to take shape.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
