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[flag] / flæg /






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Red flag warnings are in place Thursday morning for what officials say could be dangerous Santa Ana winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

On Tuesday, the pair jumped security barricades to wave the national flag at Jantar Mantar, a decades-old protest site that police have barred people from using.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I was there when the Confederate flag finally came down off the capitol, a seminal moment in the arc of a changing state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Research has found that AI detectors can wrongly flag human writing as AI generated.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

We scrambled up and turned our innocent faces to the flag.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The Rams continued their penalty-filled foibles: They were flagged 11 times for 84 yards, many of the pre-snap variety that drives coach Sean McVay crazy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

She said she, her son and her daughter received notices this year from election authorities that their names had been flagged for discrepancies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

With bond yields having surged, many analysts had flagged worries about Firmus’s cost of debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Police said the tip, dated July 18, was flagged as spam and never reached the department's Real-Time Crime Center for vetting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“This is where we was before you flagged us down,” he said.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Tanden has finished up her marathon day with an appearance on CNN; she sparred with Scott Jennings about Donald Trump’s flagging poll numbers.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those failures included not flagging transactions that possibly involved Chinese money laundering networks or trade-based laundering "with a substantial nexus to the southwest border", according to the Treasury.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Friday’s strong showing for stocks has helped to revive some of investors’ flagging optimism, hinting at further gains ahead in the fourth quarter, said Jose Torres, senior economist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

Peltz has launched multiple bids to take over the chain, most recently in February and August, before deciding he would wait to see if Wendy’s newest CEO, Bob Wright, could turn the flagging operation around.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

When it was obvious that the old dog was flagging, the Labrador turned off the quiet, graveled road and into the shade of a pinewood beside a clear, fast-running creek.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford


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