house
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It’s the corporate equivalent of ordering too much alcohol for a house party where half the guests turn out to be dry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Marie Raturat Bouny, 34, and her daughter Noa, 6, take in the ruins of their house in Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"The house was inundated, I had managed to get barely 100 metres away," said Upretti, who ran a restaurant in the area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Those savings get passed on to the consumer, for whom paying less means saving money for retirement, a house or college education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Tonight, all she wanted was to curl up in her shared room in the house in Inkster-Faraday and not use language at all.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Flags from all over the Caribbean and Africa have been hung from the windows of the houses and are draped over the shoulders of people passing by.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
That includes wood to build houses, steel to build cars and food to eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The bedrooms themselves differ from those of his typical houses and in character are more like staterooms, comfortable private cabins for sleeping between your turns on deck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I don't know where to go. We had three houses, all of which were washed away by the floods."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sweet smoke from small houses on the side of the road filled the open windows of the truck.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Official figures show the number of asylum seekers being housed in British hotels has halved in the past year, which the Metro reporting that this is the lowest its been since 2022.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He is aided by assistant prop master Robyn Monkarsh, who helps oversee the box backstage in which they are housed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The lab, housed in an unmarked office in a D.C. suburb, had access to the government’s most sensitive databases, from suspicious activity reports to arrest records.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The county jails where Walter had been housed before his transfer were awful.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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It hasn’t opened a new dorm since 2009, and years of reviews showed students wanted more housing near the main campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
That wouldn’t rule out housing on the site, but it would give a team more flexibility to build whatever project might be considered most profitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Then, on 14 August, two department networks were shut down, making applications for housing benefits and payments impossible for several days.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Jillian Berman and Venessa Wong took a hard look at homeownership and rental statistics and interviewed many young adults who shared their stories about the housing market and talked about their financial goals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
They knew that to get anywhere, they needed to work with the powerhouses in the city who held the keys to jobs, housing, and social services.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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