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It’s unclear how that would affect the stability of the system, which is already on course to run out of reserves in 2032.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "The deaths are being treated as unexplained and a post mortem examination will take place in due course."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The University of Michigan’s course, designed by the architect behind Augusta National, had all 18 greens and a practice putting surface attacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Dodgers can never be fully counted out for a big swing, of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the course of this unwelcome encounter, he had forgotten himself.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Golf courses have long been a focal point of protest and vandalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The requirements were built into UC’s rules in the 1930s, reached 15 courses by the early 1960s and added visual and performing arts as a category in 1999, the UC report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Most international students are enrolled in graduate level courses, especially those in the science and technology fields.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Gusting winds protect the greens while rain can waterlog the seaside links, which see their conditions vary far more dramatically than at parkland-style courses such as Augusta National.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Frank refused to believe he’d been chosen by the Fates to go on this quest just so he could take online courses in turnip cultivation.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
George shrugged, trying to ignore the fear that coursed through her.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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There have been almost 9,000 reports of hare coursing across the UK in the past three years, according to police responses to Freedom of Information Act requests by the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
That would be the fastest rate of growth since the fourth quarter of 2021, when COVID-era stimulus was still coursing through the economy, according to FactSet’s John Butters.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 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
But it’s fun nonetheless to hear his busy breakbeats coursing through “Season 2 Weight Loss,” a tune whose words and melody are as banal as its title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can hear it coursing round and round.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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