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Pull over to use the bathroom, switch between speed limits, and wait for an inevitable bout of traffic to slow the car’s pace to a crawl for who knows how long.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Because we are still talking a bout a drop in the bucket in terms of Treasury debt out there,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The 29-year-old instead wants to fight the winner of the upcoming WBC title fight between holder Ryan Garcia and English challenger Conor Benn, or pursue another unification bout with Australia's IBF champion Liam Paro.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
But in the 1970s, a bout of high inflation and slow growth—known as stagflation—discredited Keynesian prescriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lowering his voice, he said, “Now, Will Tweedy, you ain’t to tell a soul bout all this.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Greg Byrne, who lives just outside Tucson, Arizona, has had two bouts of melanoma and ended up in an earlier Moderna study of this treatment after having surgery to remove the cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Serrano shared 30 brutal rounds across three historic bouts with Katie Taylor - twice on Netflix - and alongside the Irishwoman and Claressa Shields, has driven the sport's commercial boom.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Born with sickle-cell disease, Ms. Gray had spent much of her life in emergency rooms riding out bouts of pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s hit 15 states, sickening tens of thousands of people with prolonged bouts of diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He ate and slept and ate and slept, and in between bouts of eating and sleeping, he ejected many tiny, compacted green bales from his hind end.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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