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Of course, there’s still an election to be held, votes to be cast and ballots to be counted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Notably, Ramsey and another younger cast member, Sebastian Croft, both starred in season six of Game of Thrones.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Vice Chair Jefferson echoes another central bank official who cast doubt on an October hike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Young people are motivated most to cast a ballot in order to take action on issues they care about.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
In those days metals were cast into various shapes called ingots, and included in the ship’s cargo were thirty-four four-handled copper ingots called oxhide ingots because they were shaped like a stretched-out oxhide.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Since Diplodocus was first discovered in the United States in 1878, casts of its skeleton have appeared in major natural history museums around the world, particularly during the early 20th century.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
It is his conversations with fellow city solitaries that unveil smaller revelations, and Saramago casts the transformation of his protagonist in existential terms as Senhor José’s search becomes a project in itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Lucas Museum purposefully and with no apology casts its net wide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The latest threat heightens the risk the neighboring countries could descend into all-out economic conflict and casts further doubt over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He casts his eye on me to gauge how I feel about it.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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OK, I’m casting my mind back to that Pirates of the Caribbean sequel where Bill Nighy had an octopus for a face.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
That this doesn’t play like jokey stunt casting speaks to the spirit of communal, all-hands-on-deck engagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lawyers for the city say board members acted independently and properly reviewed market data before casting their votes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Rather than casting players as super-powered characters, as was the case with most video games in the 90s, it forced them to survive with limited resources.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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