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So he stood down, depriving the internet of a highlight reel that would have made him famous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Officers from the neighbourhood policing team are based just over a mile away at Moseley Police Station, but there are concerns Kings Heath falls down the list of priorities.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The cartel expects demand to rise by 580,000 barrels a day this year, down from the 780,000 barrels a day it expected previously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

I walk down the street and I see an alarming number of people wearing weighted walking vests now, which is so frightening that it requires me to catch my breath every now and again.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

“The Red River borders Texas and Oklahoma and churns down to Baton Rouge, where it joins the Mississippi and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. No way around it,” I sigh.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

After ups and downs, her condition deteriorated and she died on Aug. 9.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

Suddenly they swept up with a noise like thunder, and the foremost horseman swerved, passing by the foot of the hill, and leading the host back southward along the western skirts of the downs.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

F-15s were downed by friendly fire over Kuwait in March.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

I downed glass after glass of water to push them down, and by the time Papa started the grace, my stomach was swollen with water.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 the late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, over the downing of two civilian planes three decades ago.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 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

JC: Think about it: The world of sports has entered a bizarre new dimension, one in which formerly sad-sack teams are now the ones downing champagne and getting showered in confetti.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

All this compared to the forty-five seconds we spend downing bioloaf.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera