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Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The more surprising story isn’t what’s happening in the world’s most important crude chokepoint — it’s why the oil market no longer seems to care as much as it did just a few months ago.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
He has since grown his collection from that Lumina—once his grandfather’s car—to three more 1990s Chevy Luminas, three Impalas, a 1999 Monte Carlo and a few Pontiacs, among others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
According to models based on QCD, that means too few quarks were being stopped to account for all the baryons appearing in the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
She has very few belongings, but she has managed to keep her little doll Ah Choo through it all.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The EIA showed a surprise — and major — build in U.S. commercial inventories of oil, thanks to fewer crude exports and a jump in imports, mostly from Venezuela.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
When the fossils were originally found, scientists had far fewer mosasaur specimens available for comparison, making it difficult to determine exactly what kind of mosasaur the bones represented.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even fewer — 41 — were charged with voting illegally or other election-related crimes.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
With fewer people in the stands, are we in another transitional period for one of British sport's most divisive tournaments?
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He especially liked the books with pictures, for they seemed to say much more in far fewer words.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Hiring picked up in first half of 2026, but last year saw the fewest new jobs created in any year in which the economy was not in recession.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Bruins are coming off a season in which they won just three games, their fewest in more than 54 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
They have the highest on-base-plus-slugging percentage in the major leagues and have conceded the fewest runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
When taking playing time into account, they've actually run the least and made the fewest sprints of the four sides remaining.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Cayman Islands, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, has the fewest drownings of all.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
