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A senior Conservative politician, Sir James has held a number of ministerial positions under three prime ministers - including roles as home secretary and education secretary.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Remember, you both have the same goal: to get your work done and go home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
It’s reasonable to believe that the moment he knocked home match point for major No. 25 the word “Retirement” would appear before him in gigantic flashing letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
To me, an important part about sports is the memories that continue for so long after the events, and these two columns by two terrific writers truly brought that home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Baguio is home of the Philippine Military Academy and Camp John Hay, an American base that has been overtaken by the Japanese.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The paper reports on three women who lost their "sons, husbands, and homes", while countless others wait for news about their missing loved ones.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Golden State Wind, off Morro Bay, was expected to generate up to 2 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power about 1.1 million homes, according to the developer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Thousands of homes have been destroyed or suffered significant damage. We believe that at least 93,000 people have been affected and in great need."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Lala carried a record wind gust of 140 miles per hour, recorded on the peak of Mauna Kea, while across the state more than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed by cataclysmic flooding.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Her observations about orphans and more homes for the friendless—“I just saw an advertisement for another new asylum, this one opened by the Catholics!”—still made my ears prick up like a nervous deer’s.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The trial court judge homed in on one factor: Anderson typically spent 5½ months a year from May to mid-October in Greenwich, and 3½ months from November through mid-February in Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Lacks-Kelly says his team has homed in on 27 of the country's worst offenders for hare coursing and all but five of them have links to organised crime.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
In a conversation with the Bulwark’s Tim Miller immediately following Spanberger’s response, Buttigieg pointed out Americans’ anxieties surrounding affordability and homed in on a way to call out the GOP’s hypocrisy.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
On Tuesday morning, investors homed in on Anthropic’s Friday announcement that it was adding open-source plug-ins in research preview to Cowork that allow companies to customize and build on Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
His homed helmet was big enough to put an eagle in.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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The company is also homing in on fast-growing sports like Hyrox, offering a training camp for athletes to prepare for competitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
McIlroy is also homing in on a record eighth victory in the European tour's season-long race.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
But homing in on the annoying and self-defeating aspects of it misses the real story of how the movement changed American society, and the world, for the better—and how Lindy West did too.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
They equipped astrocytes, a common type of brain cell, with a CAR homing device that allows the cells to latch onto specific targets and destroy them.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
She breathed steadily as she followed her internal homing equipment.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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