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Along the river, the zoo has added AI-powered wildlife cameras—originally built to track animals on the African savannah—to instantly flag movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Humoring the governor, Musk told Abbott he’d try to get a Texas flag emoji on his social media platform, X, drawing a round of applause from the governor over the air.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Their red and blue flag has flown regularly over the town and a number of families can trace their roots back to the Scandinavian country.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Kites in the black, white, green and red of the Palestinian flag soar overhead, joined by another in the colours of Egypt, flown in tribute to the Egyptian national football team.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
“In war,” he says slowly, “boys as young as twelve marched, carried the Union flag, and fought.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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In 161 instances, according to the report, a plate that the system flagged as being stolen turned out to be wrong — although not every one of those cases led to a police intervention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The company said Tuesday that it expects a slightly higher oil-trading result in the second quarter compared with the January-March period, when it flagged an exceptional performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He said the council is not engaging with traders, but that they have carried out "minimal cleaning" since he first flagged concerns.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
However, Jones flagged that “the potential cloud offering and fees for access to its AI model all serve to provide incremental revenue beyond its core advertising revenue.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Once he started narrating, our interest never flagged.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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Since the pandemic, millions of Chinese youth have dealt with increasing financial pressure, high unemployment rates and a flagging economy.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
One experienced trader is flagging the stress visible in equity financing rates and saying there’s a complacency from the conviction that the market only goes higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
“It’s a flagging industry. ... The industry will have to consolidate to survive,” said C. Kerry Fields, a USC Marshall School of Business economics professor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Oil prices fell Monday on optimism over US-Iran peace talks, with mediators flagging a "roadmap" to a final agreement, while most equities rose thanks to another healthy start for tech firms.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Even the fittest of us were flagging now, and soon the hollows would catch up to us and we’d have to face them in the middle of the street.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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