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The technology can offer a quick fix for restaurant owners waiting on commissioned photos, or a cost-efficient alternative to professional marketing materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"I tried to fix a problem that didn't really need fixing, and I've come back with a bigger problem that I need surgery for, and I can't afford that," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
If you were in a polling place, voting in person, if your ballot is rejected, you can fix it.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
I tossed it with store-bought ravioli and shredded rotisserie chicken warmed in olive oil, put peas on the side, and waited for the part where I needed to fix something.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
In an effort to fix my mind on something, I asked Frau Mikes to teach me the card game that she played hour after hour.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The department said Abbott used temporary but inadequate fixes to try to solve the problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
And after any fixes, the entire 746-mile pipeline will have to be pressure-tested, and all components checked and cleared before meaningful throughput can resume, Shah added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the immediate fixes are possibly more mundane: more landing stations, greater geographical diversity, faster permissions, protected cable routes and an Indian repair capability.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“The press release just looks like they’re providing air cover for the company without directing real fixes or systematic changes.”
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Soon-Lee fixes her hair, pumping it up in the back with her fingers.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
A popular product in the run-up to the subprime-mortgage crisis, ARMs offer a lower interest rate up front for a fixed number of years before adjusting periodically based on the prevailing interest rate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The band said standard ticket prices across the tour would be fixed at between £71.50 and £266.60.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
In fixed income, Treasury yields continued to move in lock step with oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“This case is about money Nick’s parents separately set aside for him alone and made irrevocable, to be paid to him on two fixed dates: one-half at 30, and the balance at 35.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“If me and Aunt Kitty are like sisters,” I whispered bitterly, my eyes fixed on the flames in the fireplace, “then I’d rather be alone.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
On Umá's rounded arm the woollen band Was fixt securely by the nurse's hand.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
His mallice is fixt, and will not evaporate by any your mild courses.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
All these I saw at a glance; but what fixt my attention was the expression of goodness, nobleness, and power that pervaded the whole—the truly human heart and nature that shone in the eyes.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
That Τριχῇ διάστατον ἀντίτυπον is nothing but a fixt spirit, the conspissation or coagulation of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone, which are indeed the Centrall Tasis or inward essence of the sensible world.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Her eyes next, anxiously, sought those of Lord Melbury, and instantly met them; but with a look of gravity so unusual, that her own were hastily withdrawn, and fixt, disappointed, upon the ground.
From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Finding other causes is important, since fixing housing markets can only get us part of the way there.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Standard electron microscopy commonly involves chemically fixing and dehydrating tissue, steps that can alter the structures scientists are trying to observe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Now the U.K. is fixing its sights on tourists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Misconnections are illegal, and fixing them is the responsibility of the property owner, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He knew I was fixing to go, that in my heart I was already gone.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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