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“Since then, she has improved once more,” the center said Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Three new factories are set for just Arkansas, a center of U.S. weapons production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The domestic violence center run by Jewish Family Service LA is a safe haven — as long as it can afford to operate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Nvidia-OpenAI deal looks even more unusual when considering the electricity required to power the Ohio data center.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Unlike Celia, who’s working as an assistant counselor at the camp at the rec center.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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But it’s the rift between May and Lotta that centers this busy story, which includes more subplots than can be quickly synopsized here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
SINGAPORE—For decades, founders and investors in China’s technology firms used tax-haven shell companies to list overseas and keep billions of dollars in offshore centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Making the vehicle fully reusable will better allow the company to improve its Starlink satellite-internet service and put data centers in orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
In this recent expansion, private schools have opened in farms and barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, people’s homes and parks, ProPublica’s review of 13 states found.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
A full nine days after the order was issued, they were still trapped in their homes and evacuation centers, and they were running out of food.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ancestor: a tiny creature with a single eye centered on the top of its head.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
That blockade centered on the Bab al Mandeb strait, the only southbound route for Saudi tankers headed to Asian markets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Much of the craze has centered around the models' ability to sidestep structural constraints, including strict historic-preservation rules in many European cities that restrict exterior-wall modifications such as drilling for external AC units.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The battle is always centered in the self.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
She calls herself a “Jewish woman challenging the incumbent” and is centering her campaign on public safety, including law enforcement, fire and probation, emergency preparedness and confronting antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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