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For a Padres fan, it goes from a glorious dinger to a lifelong hatred of roofs and roof cables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

One young fan mused, “Is Nixon pulling off the greatest posthumous political comeback in history?”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

A self-described die-hard eagle fan, she said she knew the livestream was popular but “didn’t know how popular it was amongst my own community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The 20-year-old criminology student is a huge One Direction fan and says she just about managed to avoid spoilers for Styles' Together, Together tour over summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I place her now-polished second foot flat on the floor and fan her toes with the folding fan we keep for this purpose.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Rambunctious fans soon earned the team’s arena the nickname “Loud City.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In the latest quarter, which ran through June, ticket sales at StubHub were up 34% from a year earlier, lifted by the crush of fans shopping for World Cup seats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"But I do understand the NFL wants to bring new fans in."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Brits who want to see the 11th-century relic say they’re being treated like Taylor Swift fans on Ticketmaster while American tech billionaires, luxury hotel guests and museum sponsors get to skip the line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Dinka admired him as much as any American sports fans look up to an athlete who scores a touchdown or hits a home run.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

In the early 2000s, when citrus-canker lesions dotted Florida oranges, state contractors fanned out with woodchippers to destroy trees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Tucakovic said the firestorm burned through "everything in their path" as officials confirmed flames, fanned by strong winds, engulfed 1,000 hectares in just four hours.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Those personnel fanned across the archipelago nation, carrying out a wider range of activities than in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

He put wood on the fire and fanned it to life and they lay in their blankets watching the flames twist in the wind and then they slept.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Constantly high fuel costs have pushed up inflation since the start of the war at the end of February, fanning rate hike bets and pushing bond yields to levels not seen since the 2000s.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

And more worryingly, retail diesel prices remain at a record high around $5.90 a gallon, fanning concerns about inflation as global financial markets are under strain from a bond selloff and U.S. dollar weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

“They were going around fanning people, handing out barf bags left and right.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

On an overcast Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City this summer, four bicyclists gathered in an industrial area not far from the city’s airport before fanning out across town.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Three hundred voices greeted the team as they broke for the far basket, fanning out in two disciplined lines for layups.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy