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Lands’ End marketing is showing up around college football games this fall as the clothing chain aims to reach new shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The original meme stock is not the retail videogame chain that was famously portrayed in the movie “Dumb Money.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
His tenure predates the formation of Inspire, becoming Arby’s CEO in 2013 after Roark first acquired the roast-beef sandwich chain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It noted that its aircraft “create tens of thousands of U.S. jobs through the company’s growing American footprint as well as within its supply chain made up of approximately 2,800 American companies across 47 states.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Then she undoes the main lock, plus the extra chain she keeps on the door whenever we’re in here together.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
As part of the grants, the commerce department will take a minority stake in each of the three companies as it looks to support the development of domestic semiconductor and advanced-hardware supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It said hundreds of vessels are now part of shadow fleets that evade sanctions and sail without insurance, fragmenting supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The sudden loss of these volumes forced European nations to urgently reorganise their supply chains and build new LNG terminals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ministers say that the big supermarket chains will take the financial hit, insisting "bold action" is needed to help households.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The men discovered that the foaming white-water rapids ran through a deep gorge between steep, rock-strewn mountain chains.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
It’s a gauntlet made thornier whenever Murashige, who believes in mercy over violence, engages with Kanbei, chained in a dungeon but with a dangerous mind nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"You were not chained to a door or something, right? You were not locked up in a basement. The chains were less obvious, but they were there."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
The chained ones had a hard time getting down to the road, tripping each other up as they climbed off the bus.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Adding eight gigawatts of new demand to a 2.4 gigawatt system is like chaining an M1 Abrams tank to a Toyota Camry and expecting the two vehicles to drive calmly down the highway together.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
You and your husband have gone from wanting to sell this house to actually chaining yourself to the house and the future occupants.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
New offences were created including interfering with national infrastructure, "locking on" – chaining or gluing yourself to something – and tunnelling underground.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
“They were chaining the steps in behind us,” Seals said, “so we didn’t have a way out, really.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024
By winter he was back in the woods with Charlie McDonald, cutting cottonwoods, chaining them to the draft horses, and skidding them out of the woods in snow and sleet.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
