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[klas, klahs] / klæs, klɑs /








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On Saturday evening, she talked to a crowd at a brewery about restoring shop class to junior high schools and creating measures that facilitate repairing rather than replacing electronics and appliances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In the world's most populous country, the need for high-end hospitality workers is immense, fuelled by economic growth and the rise of a middle class that travels more and increasingly eats at plush establishments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Investor will turn to whether the company’s establishment of a new nonvoting share class presages equity fundraising in 2027, the analyst adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But after months of negotiations, he’s staying put — and Meta shareholders are about to see a new class of stock.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Right away the class broke into a low buzzing noise.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Police identified the gunman as Griffin J John II - a former pupil who had attended special education classes at the school.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The two men collaborated frequently, and while Bell used the medical theater to demonstrate deductions on living people, Littlejohn kept a collection of case evidence to show his classes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"There are three classes of these particles," explains Tobias Weissenborn, a physicist and doctoral candidate at Leibniz University Hannover.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Treasury yields sank on Thursday, in a rare bout of extreme buying as tech stocks plunged and investors headed for cover in one of the world’s largest and most liquid asset classes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The official idea is that the students have a “more intimate seventh-grade experience”: smaller classes with fewer different kids in each and teams of teachers dedicated to those fewer kids specifically.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

By Monday, there had been 15 consecutive days classed as "unhealthy" based on the local PSI air quality measuring system, exceeding the eight measured in 2015, NEA deputy director Jason Evan Tan told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Maybe Fuller, the guy who classed up “Hannibal,” could have done something brilliant with Pamela.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Customers who get PIP and are classed as having limited mobility can lease a car for no cash upfront—they simply forgo about £320 a month of “enhanced mobility” allowance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

More than 274,500 homes and businesses are currently classed at risk of flooding, with this figure set to increase significantly by the end of the century.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Until that moment there had been a dividing line on one side of which stood the solemn poor and on the other people like himself, among whom he had classed Amanda.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The locations, especially as photographed here by cinematographer Leo Zhang, make for a crafty way of classing up a low-budget feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Taylor said classing submersibles also addresses standard operational and emergency procedures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

But that doesn't mean this falls outside the classing system.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023

Even though they're a sturdy, workman's shoe, they have a knack for quickly classing up any golf outfit, pairing just as well with casual shorts as they do with high-end trousers.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 12, 2017

I only claim that physiology without vivisection would be strangely clumsy, limited to a few empirical facts, and that, if vivisection be proscribed, we must resolutely give up classing physiology among the sciences.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet


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