goal
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The goal: Rewriting the annual plan to make room for AI in the company’s core businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Salah's first-half goal was his ninth in a Merseyside derby - in the Premier League era, no player has more, with only Steven Gerrard level with the Egyptian - and his 257th for Liverpool.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The Kings made a game of it late, pulling goaltender Anton Fosberg with 2:57 to play and getting a power-play goal from Artemi Panarin 35 seconds later.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
The goal is to head off harm by finding a disease before it causes symptoms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
The goal was to get Fukushima to petition for Bobby’s right to be deported to—and accepted by—Iceland.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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