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[daun] / daʊn /




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He told reporters he was clamping down in response to “a whole bunch of developers who were acting in unscrupulous ways who were running roughshod over our communities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Jack Doughty, of the Obesity Health Alliance, said people living with obesity were being "let down by a fragmented and overstretched treatment system".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Simply put, it’s a race between the potential profit unlock it promises and the massive debt it must pay down.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Major artificial-intelligence stocks traded down due to worries about how much tech companies are spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

I go over to her bed and sit down.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"There will be ups and downs in the process, but I'm happy because attitude-wise I think he's in a great place."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Denver converted just one of 12 third downs and finished with 224 yards, 13 fewer than the Chargers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

“I have seen plenty of ups and downs in grape and wine supply,” said Juan Munoz-Oca, the estates director for Marchesi Antinori’s U.S. business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This year has been quite challenging for me, lots of ups and downs and physical and health issues, so I was just trying to find a good feeling on the court," Djokovic said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But Billy didn’t want to read about the same ups and downs over and over again.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Housing starts plunged 5.2% to a 1.22 million rate in September, as homebuilders downed shovels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Worries about a tighter defense budget have downed drone firm stocks this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was the electronic calling card of Night Watch, an elite Ukrainian jamming unit that says it downed the missiles with its Lima system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach was notified of a downed aircraft in the Pacific six miles northwest of Morro Bay with one person aboard, according to Coast Guard Southwest District spokesperson Kenneth Wiese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Two contestants had salvaged pieces of metal from the downed plane and were using them as tanning reflectors.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

After downing Atletico in the first of the three-peat, they beat Juventus and then Liverpool - the latter remembered for Gareth Bale's cameo, Loris Karius' blunders and Sergio Ramos leaving his mark on Mo Salah.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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

An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau


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