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chain

[cheyn] / tʃeɪn /




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The Ellison family-controlled Harbor Lights Entertainment has sold its Showcase Cinemas theater chain to a major European cinema group in a $30-million deal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Commercial satellite imagery, which is sent straight to soldiers’ phones, is speeding up the kill chain and causing new problems for Russian forces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Meanwhile, Swedish sweet shop chain Candy King, opened its first US outlet in Manhattan last December.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Tomás had brought two chain saws, but they immediately decided it would be safer for one of them to use the saw while the other pulled branches and pieces of trunk out of the way.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith




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