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As the verdict was read on each of the counts, Banks kept his head down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
In late 2025, she sat down in CEO Satya Nadella’s office for a meeting and was stunned when he asked her to consider taking over Xbox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Six decades have passed since Jackie Bassett first appeared on TV aged seven, skipping down the road with her little sister.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
De Paula gave a glimpse of his base running ability — he had 31 stolen bases in double-A this season — as he raced to second and touched the base before the tag came down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
I’m tempted to go down to the basement and play Grace.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He added he hoped "voluntary slow downs" - a self-imposed pause by companies in AI development - would become commonplace until shared guardrails were established.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Any musical outfit that’s been around 40 years will have had its ups and downs, pauses and restarts, shake-ups and breakups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Nine out of 10 of the most popular stocks for hedge funds are megacap tech companies and the ups and downs of the AI sector still drive their performance, their leverage and their positioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Through years of typical relationship ups and downs, our attraction to each other has hardly wavered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Bigwig remembered the night in Efrafa when he had calmed her by talking of the high downs and the certainty of their escape.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
That could result in gusty offshore winds, wildfire risks, and downed trees, according to Kristan Lund, meteorologist with the weather service office in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
That fire was started by downed power lines due to high winds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Red icons -- depicting Russian drones -- were dotted across the map and disappeared as they were downed by Ukraine's air force.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Residents were urged to shelter in place due to downed power lines and other hazards.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
I helped them dress while Karl downed a second cup of coffee.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
In 2024, Putin apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan over the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, in which 38 people were killed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The United States has also indicted former president Raul Castro, brother of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, over the downing of two civilian planes three decades ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Ratcheting up the pressure, U.S. prosecutors in May indicted former President Raúl Castro on murder charges relating to the downing of two civilian aircraft in 1996.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
On Tuesday and Wednesday night, US and Iranian forces exchanged fresh waves of strikes following the downing of a US helicopter in the Gulf.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
All this compared to the forty-five seconds we spend downing bioloaf.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
