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The alleged incident happened in the final minute of the Group C match in Baku.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Citi C -1.08%decrease; down pointing triangle has received approval from Chinese regulators to set up a wholly owned securities company in China, a milestone in its yearslong effort to deepen its presence in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Pools B and C are combined into one six-team league, from which only the top two will make the semi-finals.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

As part of the deal, Zuckerberg could sell or transfer up to 20% of Class C stock so his voting majority doesn’t decrease even if he has to pay the tax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

One last strum through C major, the sound of everything being okay, and I sing the opening line: “This song is your Valentine card. In it are all the words I could never say.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Experiments using cancer models have provided additional evidence of vitamin C's possible protective effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

In high school, I received mostly B’s and C’s, and I didn’t study for the SATs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

"They were put in a situation where they were scammed," Christophe Bruschi, Joseph C's lawyer, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

Plan C’s website maintains a full list of options for obtaining abortion pills by state.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2024

The woman scans my transcript—mostly C's bracketed by a couple of B's and D's.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Erin Bleakley's plans were ruined after she was awarded Bs, Cs and Ds in her highers in 2020 after an emergency marking system was introduced.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

"And by now, they would have found them. There would be plan Bs and plan Cs, to make sure that we have reduced this exposure to the US."

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

Utsunomiya continued, "because we knew that most of the Cs in CsMPs is fission derived, we thought that analysis of the pollucite could yield the first ever direct images of radioactive Cs atoms."

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

The Cs, on the other hand, were from the other side of the tracks.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Beyond consent, the other two c’s, credit and compensation, have their own challenges, as illustrated even now with the high cost of litigation regarding infringements of copyright or patents.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023

“It hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

On the other hand I can always tell you that I lost a spelling bee to Juanita Meyers in the fifth grade; the word was necessary, I misspelled it with two "c's."

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016

Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010

Double up on the c’s and the s’s.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

A contestant in the Season 3 premiere lays out her "four cs" theory of success: "courage, creativity, cash and celebrity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Make 7 more cs, joining between a and bs in the same manner. d.

From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown

The grammarians say that the character axis a monogram representing cs or gs.

From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck

C or cz is pronounced as English ts; cs as English ch; ds as English j; zs as French j; gy as dy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

X. x, 2, 9; —— = cs and gs, 32. -x, decl. of monosyllables in, preceded by one or more cons.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett


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