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[kawrs] / kɔrs /






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The UK government's Department of Health and Social Care said: "We will consider the advice and will update on any future programme in due course."

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

It is, of course, a natural limitation of the defense of the Great Books, as a genre, that the discourse fails to live up to the actual experience of reading any one of those books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Of course it’s absurd to imagine breathable air as something you can put a price tag on.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

Under pressure from the community, the city reversed course, notifying the district on June 25 that the project would be subject to the tree protection ordinance and permits would be required.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

“Of course it isn’t. It’s one rock. One ask.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Biologist ffin, 43, originally from Portugal, moved to Wales to work in CAT's biology department while Steph, 49, moved from England to run the centre's short courses programme.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Over a dinner that included multiple salad courses and lobster tail, the men discussed recent books they read.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

The study will also look at the high school courses UC requires for admission.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The fourth and fifth courses appear, and then the table is prepared for dessert.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

My body coursed with anxiety for the entire pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Overflowing rivers coursed through villages, sweeping away homes, roads and bridges and triggering landslides.

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

It's been three years now, but the 35-year-old school teacher has no trouble recalling the "pure shock" that coursed through when she and partner Kris Ventura, 33, opened the page.

From BBC Feb. 8, 2025

As a boy, I must have intuited that what was foppish about Lynde, Reilly and Taylor coursed through me, too, even without the words to explain why.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2024

My cheeks burned and guilt coursed through me, the guilt of indulging myself at the expense of his ulcer, his black fingernails and aching wrists.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Cook, who built Apple into a colossus with influence coursing through geopolitics, pop culture and the daily lives of billions of people, said he would step down as chief executive on Sept. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

It’s a medicated but functioning limbo that Peet, in one of her best roles, conveys without the slightest trace of pity but with a coursing, wryly emotional intelligence that always reveals the sadness fueling it.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

Williams said there were problems locally involving fly-grazing - where animals are left on land without permission - as well as hare coursing and poaching.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

Mastercard’s stock was off 5.2% and coursing toward its worst daily performance also since that date.

From MarketWatch Jan. 13, 2026

Already he could feel the deer’s strength coursing through him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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