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[giv] / gɪv /






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Marshall said: "It will be an absolute privilege to lead this team out with Sarah, and I know every single one of us will give everything to bring success home for Team Scotland."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Crude futures went on to give up some of the gains but were still up around three percent.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Union Pacific agreed to give Canadian National Railway expanded Midwest access in exchange for CN ending opposition to its pending merger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

“If you’re a Latino creative, the best advice I can give you is, don’t be corny,” said Martinez.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

I will my legs to move faster, tripping over the uneven sidewalk while the tears I refused to give him chase each other down my cheeks.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

These have snowballed into huge high-stakes challenges where he gives away large sums of money to strangers.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

It resets sentiment, lowers valuations and gives earnings time to catch up with prices.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Fans say wearing the look gives them a sense of freedom and infectious joy, and it creates an instant sense of community with total strangers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The problem is that waiting for a visible relapse gives surviving cancer cells more time to evolve.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

‘The Listener gives his heart’s blood to the Mountain.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The information from 2018 gave detectives a second strand of evidence, and grounds to monitor every keystroke that Greer made on police computers.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

That gave them enough of a cushion to weather a ninth-inning comeback attempt from the Phillies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

She gave her first ballet performance at 6 on the tiny stage in front of the screen in a Hiroshima movie theater.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The European Union on Wednesday gave the conditional green light for Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

On the morning of September 1, Mrs. Floor gave birth to a baby girl.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Dodgers starting pitcher Eric Lauer, who had already given up a two-run home run to Alec Bohm in the first inning, surrendered a solo shot to Bryan De La Cruz to lead off the fifth.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

"But given the way that the committee is stacked," he said, "I don't have that confidence at all."

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Political consultant Igor Ratchin was sentenced to 11 years in prison and translator Lev Lakshtanov was given eight years.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

This kind of oversight won’t seem unreasonable to most Americans, especially given the eye-watering levels of fraud that are permeating these programs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The package contains one hundred pesos—far more than the amount he’d given away.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

DeployCo said it is still choosing its first customers, and will be giving priority to those with longstanding relationships with OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The Department for Transport said it was "giving councils stronger powers to tackle dangerous and inconsiderate pavement parking" - but on roads like Fordhouse Lane in Birmingham parking on the pavement is permitted.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Your level of wealth actually makes a huge difference to giving you a useful answer.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

He thinks he can steer the struggling brand back into the limelight by giving it more attention and ideas than it has had in decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Either their parents prohibited them from giving a statement or the girls refused.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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