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It is also, she says, more fire-resistant; peat in good condition can be up to 90% water, which is increasingly important as wildfires become more common during summer months.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Ireland and the United States have long been close allies, partly because of their common ancestral ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
"The most common birds alive in the Cretaceous were part of a group called the enantiornithines. The modern Neornithes branch of birds were separate from that group, and so were the hesperornithiforms," says O'Connor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Globally, these kinds of blooms are increasingly common as human-caused emissions continue to warm the Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Her dream was to have the entire world working together toward a common goal,” Nyame says.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Harald had been seen as a down to earth "people's king" who had helped to modernise the monarchy, broken with tradition by marrying a commoner and served as a unifying figure.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“The commoner the better,” Prince Humperdinck replied, pacing again.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK."
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
Rather, Button selected their products for BuyMeOnce because of the inventive ways Davek responds to the commonest problem: losing that umbrella.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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