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With profits from their core lending businesses lackluster, in part because of hot competition for consumer deposits, banks are also under pressure to find ways to grow their loan books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“We need earning assets, and we can find some attractive earning assets.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Susan said she had tried to find her son with the help of the Salvation Army, but hadn't got anywhere.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
How did you find the L.A. of “Drive”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Run your hand over your own skull and you will find all sorts of knobs, bumps, dips, and so on.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The global economy suddenly finds its energy supplies threatened on three fronts simultaneously: the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Black Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
What he finds is a conflict pitting human progress, and its attenuating battle for power and domination, against nature.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
She tries not to re-watch the videos of the strikes from late May, but finds herself returning to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
And he finds the language barrier particularly difficult.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It’s tough living and not everyone finds it relaxing. We have a long summer, and if you keep that attitude, it’s going to be even longer. Be patient. Give it time. For me?”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
It wasn’t clear whether the ExploitGym problems the model was trying to solve were more difficult than the attack it mounted to steal the answers—or if they even found any answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Police arrived and found Summers injured on a street adjacent to the mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I'd found my birth mum being able to sort of make her truly happy. And I'd found a family really that I never really knew existed."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But an Economist/YouGov poll conducted in recent days found that support diminishing.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Clare had found Captain when he was just a bud, in the very spot where he grew now.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
“It’s more about finding a way to prevent the gap from widening quickly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
For all three, finding each other has been a life-changing experience.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Kennedy told The Times in 2023 that the school came to him after it had trouble finding another wealthy booster to foot the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The latter finding makes sense to Lex, given that “most of us just have fewer free hours for leisure.”
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Duane, who was already dizzy from the jumping, was now finding the hare’s quick, clipped way of talking equally unbalancing, not to mention all the twitches and tics that accompanied her speech.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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