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Comic book fans will return to San Diego, California on Thursday for the latest Comic-Con, with many convention-goers buzzing about this year's return of Marvel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
"If you have the money and you've been lucky enough to book, I don't think you would regret seeing it in Imax 70mm," Metro film critic Tori Brazier said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rivero argued Expedia allowed Americans to book hotel rooms on his client’s stolen land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
When I reached Watkins via Zoom to talk about the book, I asked her how she does it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The serious-minded priest, hearing all that talk about giants and enchantments, imagined that this must be the hero of the book the Duke liked to read often.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Watkins is very good at making a humorous turn at the end of thoughts, sentences, books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
In the other essays, the tone is occasionally personal, at times drifting away from the books themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Before any further arrivals, and with Dastan Satpaev due to join from FC Kairat in August, Chelsea have 38 senior players on their books.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
By Claire Vaye Watkins Riverhead Books: 256 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Things like money, social prestige, family expectations, why, in the books they vanished like rainclouds, every time.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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More than 43,000 people were booked into detention centers nationwide in June, the highest recorded since President Trump returned to office, the data show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Amundi said last week it expects to generate a net capital gain of around 300 million euros, or $342.5 million, to be booked in the third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Julius Baer said it booked record net profit in the first half of the year, boosted by increases in assets under management and client activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Fernández had been booked minutes earlier for dissent, and the second yellow card led to his expulsion, forcing Argentina to finish shorthanded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He did this whenever somebody booked the restaurant for a special occasion.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Dassault Aviation AM 7.01%increase; green up pointing triangle shares climbed after the French aerospace group posted a strong set of sales and earnings for the first half of the year despite booking sharply lower orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Homemaker Atiya Khusro, 63, said she preferred booking helps online.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Finnish elevator maker Kone backed its full-year guidance despite booking hefty costs from its planned acquisition of German rival TK Elevator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The British Columbia Hotel Association says that while final booking figures are yet to be confirmed, June and July were "pacing well behind previous years", despite Vancouver hosting seven of the games in Canada.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
He found himself booking a flight to Dulles International Airport.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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