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The agency said firefighters were "aggressively attacking the fire from ground and air" and issued repeated pleas for people to stay clear of the area.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Democracy requires interactions, and if we cannot find a way to find common ground, that’s my big worry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
And when their work is done, leaves fall to the ground and decompose, creating fertile soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But at the bottom of this stack, it is still human beings in trenches who are holding the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
From our outpost behind the privy we could see Lester and Lloyd and Flopears standing around in the yard, throwing their pocketknives at the ground.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Manoa Duwai convinced his village in 2009 to create a protected area within their customary fishing grounds on Fiji's Coral Coast after concerns over the small number and size of fish he was catching.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
ICE uses private parking facilities across the city as staging grounds for its operation, including two bank parking lots on Northern Boulevard in Queens and a garage in Manhattan’s Little Italy, the lawmakers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
There are other grounds to question Rauh’s analysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Nandy said there were reasonable grounds to believe the deal could affect free expression in the media and the variety of Britain's news landscape.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
As we walked the grounds, listening to Dr. Pérez, I was impressed by what Cuba had done about AIDS.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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