ditch
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Retirees looking to permanently ditch their snow shovels will find Tucson to be one of the West’s better values.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Investors ditch chip makers and artificial-intelligence stocks in trading Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The San Francisco Standard found at least 39 Flock contracts have been cancelled in 2026 so far, and community activists across the country continue to push for jurisdictions to ditch more.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
But how much is gained if gondola riders ditch the free shuttle buses that now run to the ballpark from Union Station?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The witness said the man was carrying a rectangular package and that he’d thrown something in a ditch.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The crop marks are made by vegetation drawing on better nutrients and water supplies trapped in long-gone fortification ditches - leading to green growth that stands out.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
As it happens, there were lots of terrible drivers on the road—and in the ditches beside them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Excavations uncovered field systems, ditches and enclosures, including horse paddocks, as well as the remains of farm buildings and storage structures.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Bedrock Robotics Chief Executive Boris Sofman visited the site last year, looking for land to test the company’s autonomous construction machinery, including excavators to dig ditches without human control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Pink’s uncle over in Athens invited him and me to go so we could fix his flat tires and push the car up hills—and out of ditches if it rained and the roads got slick.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The state’s first family had quickly ditched the historic governor’s mansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Tech mavens, including Musk, have ditched California for the Lone Star State.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chip company Arm, gambling group Flutter and fintech Wise are among a litany of U.K. companies that ditched their home market for New York in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The heroic pilot who safely ditched a stricken airliner in a New York City river in 2009 has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He shouldn’t have gotten out of bed and he shouldn’t have ditched me in that home of fire and smoke.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
Crocs attacked an oversupply of aging inventory by ditching discounts and making products less available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Many people are forced between maintaining an accent they're proud of or indeed ditching their accent to try to just even move on in life," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Investors have been ditching AI-linked stocks due to worries about surging memory-chip prices.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
But ditching the physical disc strikes a blow to secondhand markets like GameStop, allowing Take-Two to capture more profits, Griffin added.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
“So Dad doesn’t want me to do it either. And I’m in trouble for ditching you.”
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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