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The process is to be led by Dr Martin Blake, a former Chief Veterinary Officer for Ireland and is expected to report by early autumn.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Barring any surprising or dramatic August data releases in early September, the Fed will stand pat, the team said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The DXY dollar index fell to 99.294, its lowest level since early June, in early European trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Another series, RummiKlub LA, launched in early 2025 and has hosted three events in New York City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The moment he says that, a guy who looks to be in his early twenties enters the rental room, wearing the same hideous uniform.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"The later crops, the second earlies, are more a concern, because they're at tuber initiation stage," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Circumcising babies when they are at their earlies stage of development-imprinting every experience- is bad medicine.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2012
After Panetta met with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius earlies this month, the columnist wrote that “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
If you, like me, have long been befuddled by potato planting classifications – earlies, second earlies, maincrop, lates – this podcast is revelatory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
He caught himself thinking, as he saw them, of Stock Exchanges, two-penny-tubes, Belgravia dinner parties, private views, "small and earlies," musical comedy, and all the rest of the dismal and meager program.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
"From a very young age, I lost the chance to have a normal childhood, friends, relationships, and my privacy," Panettiere wrote in her revealing autobiography, This Is Me, which was published earlier this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
He managed at five different plants in Mexico for about two years each earlier in his career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Musk touted his plan to build the 100-million-square-foot facility on X earlier this month, calling it “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
I stood on tiptoes to see the edge of our own field, the potato plants as strong and the stems as thick as they had been when I passed them earlier.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
If it were possible to watch the earliest cells take shape, the scene may have involved two distinct forms of primitive cellular life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
National Highways said repairs to the A31 were not expected to be begin until Friday 14 August at the earliest.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Our Social Security at the earliest withdrawal date will be roughly $30,000 and we don’t plan on waiting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
From the earliest days of colonial settlement and black slavery, African Americans have faced violence and setbacks even as progress has been made.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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