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“There is a fine line between knowing history and planting seeds of fear in young students.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
If that results in much greater U.S. productivity then it could be fine, but it’s an increasingly large “if.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The additional £750,000 fine in March was for the registration of academy players between 2019 and 2022, for which Chelsea were also given an immediate nine-month academy transfer ban.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
So relax — the government checked, and dinner is fine.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
I study his profile, notice the fine stubble along the curve of his jaw, and the way the fringe of his hair brushes the top of his long eyelashes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“Is it fine art? It’s finer art because it’s actually telling a story,” Lucas said at a museum party last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I sat down to speak to Kane about the finer details of his game, shedding light on his unique role.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Higher capacity is required for complex transactions like contracts, which require not just grasping the immediate exchange, but also comprehending finer details, consequences and the broader context.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
During its finer, sharper stretches, this is a caustic caper filled with wit and grit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“There are no anomalies present, Susan. The variations in wording and the time reactions are within the limits of ordinary frequency groupings. We need finer methods. They must have computers here. No.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Only a filmmaker who had just won Oscars and made history would have been granted the artistic freedom to make this movie, arguably Bigelow’s finest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"When I looked back, the school was standing there like the finest of buildings, and in five minutes, everything collapsed," Dawadi recalled.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Patricia Hitchcock regarded “Notorious”—Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains—as her father’s finest, and one can see why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“California built the finest public higher education system in the world,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
They had stayed in the finest rooms at the country’s best hotels.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Hull City have been fined £30,000 over discriminatory chanting during their 4-0 FA Cup defeat by Chelsea in February.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Leonard gets fined $700,000, also a drop in the bucket for someone who should also have been suspended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Candidates or senators who willingly falsify financial disclosures can be fined up to $50,000 or prosecuted for making a false statement to the government, a felony.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Drivers with incorrectly displayed or missing number plates can be fined up to £1,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Re’lar Ambrose to be fined ten talents and six. Does any master oppose this action?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
He is accused of violating Kalshi’s rules regarding insider trading and market manipulation, fining him more than $71,000.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
The new law establishes criteria for fining companies that release high volumes of new products over short time periods at prices far below the cost of repairing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Regulator Ofwat recently proposed fining SEW £22m over issues affecting 286,000 people in Kent and Sussex between 2020 and 2023.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Asked if the league might consider taking draft picks away from teams that deliberately underperform, rather than simply fining them, Silver said discussions are ongoing "about every possible remedy now to stop this behavior."
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
Her words sliced through the air and the cries and shouts and grunts coming from everyone in the tangled mass of bodies fining the stairs from top to bottom went silent.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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