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More firms are using AI tools to comb job boards for competitors’ salary ranges in an effort to pinpoint market rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Staffed by a combination of HSI experts and outside consultants, it developed software tools to comb the data for information that could help agents pursue criminal suspects.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In addition to state parks personnel, several agencies have collaborated to comb through the park for Brophy including the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team; the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The site also preserved Eoandromeda, a possible comb jelly with eight arms arranged in a spiral.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
“You will comb through every library until you get the answer about those blueprints. So, I'm not worried about that. What else is going on?”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
He now combs the hallways for bright aluminum cans to seize and pour down the drain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A travel set of marbled beard and mustache combs that’s as handsome as dad himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Frequency combs generated in this way could help synchronize very different systems, connecting ultrafast terahertz signals with conventional electronics or even quantum devices.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Karol G, “Ivonny Bonita” Karol’s history-minded, history-making “Tropicoqueta” LP lovingly combs through the generations of Latin music that made her a global superstar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
She would not store her supers for the winter until the bees had sucked out the last remaining bits of honey from the combs.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Meanwhile, agents from the New York FBI office combed through a trove of documents received from the Met Police, following the search of Bayoumi's properties in Birmingham, the BBC has learned.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
As crisis intervention deputies combed through the juvenile’s online activity and searched his residence, they found he had an online connection with an Illinois juvenile with similarly “concerning interests,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The May PCE report isn’t likely to be taken for granted by the market; it will be combed carefully and methodically for signs to either add to or dial back rate-hike bets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
He sounds like sweet Mrs. Parsons from Sunnyside Eldercare, not Grandpa Ed, with his big nose and his hair combed back, wearing his Seahawks sweat suit.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
They described an onerous search process that entails combing through emails and phones of 13 city officials, including the mayor; as well as the records of more than a dozen rent board members and staffers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In Kathmandu, families of some of the missing foreigners said they were combing hospitals and morgues for any information.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Or, more likely, amid the backwaters of eBay: The directors reportedly ordered a massive amount of textual material online, combing through it to find anything relevant to their project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But after combing through the info we do have, Slate’s Heather Schwedel renders this brutally honest verdict.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Harry started combing the few strands of his wispy white hair.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
