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Saudi Aramco’s extensive domestic supply chain could help speed up repairs to damaged infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Sheriff’s deputies later recovered a long rope and a black chain in the apartment, authorities have said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Stephen Rowlands, the company's head of construction and supply chain said there was "a real opportunity for Welsh industry to play a leading role" in developing and delivering the new pylons.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
This is the broken link in the chain between a critical mass of American Jews and the faith’s biggest domestic organizations.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
Unless they could cool the mass of corium, the chain reaction would continue unchecked, growing hotter and hotter until the corium ate through the concrete of the secondary containment.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
There is concern in government the scheme could lock British firms out of European supply chains.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
There are many other ways to rewire supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The country's supply chains are "very flexible", and its historic boom in exports has not been significantly dented by tariffs so far, she noted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
"The outbreak spread nationwide before vaccination activities were implemented, creating extensive transmission chains that take time to fully interrupt," the WHO said in a statement to the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But then there is the risk of the chains breaking and losing the obelisk.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
"We did the recording in the morning and then come lunch time we all went off. We came back and all the studio doors were locked and chained because of the strike," said McCallum.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Boxes are typically bolted into concrete or chained in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
It is what’s known as a privilege escalation exploit, and if it were chained together with other attacks it could be used by a hacker to seize control of the computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Masks train with scims and staffs and our bare hands, on horses and boats, blindfolded and chained, with no sleep, with no food.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
In chaining many weaker chips together, it aims to mimic cutting-edge models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
“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
I’m actually surprised Rufus is chaining his bike to a gate and following me into the hospital.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
