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[ouuhr, ou-er] / aʊər, ˈaʊ ər /






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"I was there for the first hour and Louise seemed amazing. Almost as soon as I left she turned," she said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

At Burnt Hill Farm, a hilltop winery in Clarksburg, Md., a suburb an hour outside of Washington, D.C., the best table is any table, 45 minutes before sunset.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Jacqueline Villafranca, 38, from Peru, told AFP she was evacuated in about an hour on Friday evening from the village of Navalagamella to Alcobendas with her husband and two daughters, aged 16 and two.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Nearing the end of his nine-show residency at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, the 64-year-old rock icon apologized to fans when he had to pull the plug nearly an hour early.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The night shift means fewer calls, two hundred an hour instead of three times that during the day.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Symptoms are usually noticeable within 24 hours and may be made worse by over-exposure to the sun.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

On Monday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found that Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero was the intruder who got away those early morning hours of Nov. 3, 2010.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Throughout her 20s, she juggled multiple cash-paying jobs, often working gruelling hours.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Those in the time-restricted group generally ate between 10 a.m and 6 p.m. and made sure to stop eating four hours before bed.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

And apparently Po, Brickbane’s mentor, had been so eager to enter the Afterlife, he’d stuck around to train Brickbane for only two hours.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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