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[kol-uhm] / ˈkɒl əm /




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And, as I explained in my last column, bond gauges offer some confusing contradictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Expanding gases and intense heat drive this material upwards, creating a vast eruption column rising 30–50 kilometers into the atmosphere – far above commercial passenger aircraft, which usually cruise at up to about 13 kilometers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

This year’s list appears at the bottom of this column.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The column of light in front of us is closing, slimming into a pinpoint.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

As the magma continues to escape, sections of the unsupported ground subside, opening new fractures and vents while feeding further eruptive columns and pyroclastic density currents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Large columns of smoke were still visible around the site of the fire at midday on Thursday, an AFP correspondent saw.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

I say “yet another” because twice in the last two months ago I have concluded one of my columns with a similar message.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

All those columns said new things, and those things became part of how we remember that time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

On the train back to Maxwell Street, I wrote down what we had learned, compiling the facts into even columns.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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