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[day-byoo, dih-, day-byoo, deb-yoo] / deɪˈbju, dɪ-, ˈdeɪ bju, ˈdɛb ju /


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This week, Think Jerky began contacting current retailers and prospects, alerting them to the sriracha jerky’s Hollywood debut and offering them movie tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The 27-year-old made a try-scoring debut for Ireland against Japan in July and followed that with a cameo as a replacement against the All Blacks a week later.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

On Monday, the securities regulator said it planned to ease share-buyback rules, including by allowing companies to repurchase shares when the price falls below the level at which the shares made its debut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

For Devon Again, that hopefully will yield a debut album that fully captures her generation’s campy disenchantment and roiling vulnerability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Sadie had negotiated for her cornbread debut with the legendary grandparents who made the big decisions at Sandy June’s.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

They believe that even if Anthropic debuts at a roughly $1.5 trillion valuation, it could jump to $2 trillion by the end of the first trading day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The RS 5 debuts the next-generation of Audi’s Quattro permanent AWD, with a 400V electric motor baked into a torque-vectoring transaxle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The art will return to the Broad for a grand opening exhibition when the museum’s $100-million, 55,000-square-foot expansion debuts in 2028 ahead of the Summer Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

During her time in charge, she has handed debuts to 24 players, but only Lauren James, Hannah Hampton and Lucia Kendall have become established starters.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Tonight was one of the strongest debuts I think we've had since my maman was still alive."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

By the time Stewart’s final voyage with “Star Trek” debuted in 2020, Picard was less of a Starfleet hero than a wise man exhausted by politics and cruelty.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Fifth place went to Black Bear's "Wicker," which debuted at $5.8 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

After holding one reading in her backyard and one on her bed, she ran a $25,000 crowdfunding campaign and debuted the show at an Austin theater in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Now the airy space doubles as the set for her new video podcast, “Happy Hour With Ina Garten,” which debuted last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

At the Pacific Rim Championships in April 2016, I debuted a brand-new, upgraded floor routine set to fast, upbeat samba music that I thought would go over well with the crowd in Rio.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

The company is also debuting LendScore Arc, an AI-powered credit risk model that learns from the order and timing of a borrower’s transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Swift, now with 32 Moon Person statues, showed her thanks during the ceremony by debuting the music video for her new single, “Patient Zero.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Also debuting over the weekend was "Primetime," starring Robert Pattinson as reality TV host Chris Hansen.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

New York Fashion Week gets into full swing on Thursday, with Henry Zankov debuting his first collection as artistic director at Diane von Furstenberg.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

At Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand


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