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[hohm] / hoʊm /






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This result has been coming for England, who showcased vulnerability in their three WXV Global Series home matches in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The protected area Kunagado and his friends have cultivated is bursting with corals and is now home to hundreds of heat-resistant "super corals" that may protect the village from the impacts of rising sea temperatures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Teymouri said the children kept in the Arcadia home were isolated from society, almost never leaving the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

I grew up within driving distance of several of my cousins and spent vacations with them at my grandparents’ home, playing in the pool and battling over board games.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The museum looks more like a home than a business.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Evacuation orders in California are in effect due to a rapidly growing wildfire that has already burned six homes in the southern Los Angeles area.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The project, which has an estimated price tag of £33bn, would see hundreds of homes demolished, rivers diverted and the M25 motorway rerouted through a tunnel between junctions 14 and 15.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Wind-whipped flames scorched multi-million dollar homes south of Los Angeles on Friday as a wildfire quickly ravaged hundreds of acres.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

In addition, 71 percent of claims were compensated either partially or in full, with that figure rising to 93 percent for homes where the damage exceeded 150,000 euros.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

If the film had been developed and examined that weekend, the scientists would have realized that there was enough heat energy coming from the mountain to power a thousand homes.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Clark agrees the brand has "homed in on experts in their craft, rather than partnering with a million different people" like other fashion brands have made the mistake of doing.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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 recent years, both BMG and Concord have homed in on music acquisitions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

They homed in on testosterone by experimenting with sex hormone changes in the animals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Gendry was only spared because he'd admitted to forging the homed helm himself; smiths, even apprentice smiths, were too valuable to kill.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

While McLaren's Lando Norris, Mercedes' George Russell and Red Bull's Max Verstappen staged a frantic place-swapping scrap in the opening laps at Silverstone, Antonelli bided his time before homing in on Hamilton at the front.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

“Buyers from around the country — especially Texas, Vegas, Arizona and L.A. — are homing in on Orange County.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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

Would the chicken come home automatically at nightfall, like a homing pigeon or one of those movie dogs that walked a thousand miles by secret radar?

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye


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