house
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He rented a house with a roommate for a while, paying $1,000 a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Taylor said he still has a house on the Helford River in Cornwall and his son Rufus - who's the drummer for The Darkness - has a pub on the other side of the water.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The laboratory results do not yet mean that treating a house with bistrifluron will automatically produce the same mortality rates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
People like it, she says, because they feel like they’ve been invited over to her house.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
I have to leave the house in the next half hour to make sure I’m there in time to see the Flash play out.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Recently, driving through the city of Frostproof, where he grew up, Rucks pointed toward the railroad tracks, once lined with citrus packing houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet, wiping out thousands of houses, destroying energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead or missing.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
With a population of about 2,400, it could pass for any number of prairie towns: modest houses and churches, mostly boarded-up storefronts, and a grain elevator towering above everything.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Like the groves and gardens, houses built foolhardily near the dry summertime river risked being pulled off their foundations and washed away by the winter torrents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I crept through trees and huddled behind rocks, away from roads and paths where soldiers were going in and out of houses.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Only Ross Cameron, co-founder of Lyric Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on music royalties, housed on four, responded.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
A younger left, as the statement says at the beginning: “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities . . .”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It's absolutely about that housing-first approach of getting people housed, but it's also about that support we provide as well."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Now housed at an auto shop, the car sculpture that she’s working on used to be at a paint shop in the Inland Empire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
At the Daiichi plant, the reactors were housed in six square buildings that had been painted a cheerful baby blue.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Smaller homes can offer buyers a more affordable way into today’s difficult housing market, but there’s a catch: Homes with two bedrooms or fewer made up just 14% of listings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
But I believe in building housing with communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ahead of these events, the group is asking that employers provide union and living wage jobs, funding for 50,000 units of housing for working families, a moratorium on short-term rentals and protections for immigrant workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Porter is part of the team behind Kindred House, a first-of-its-kind LGBTQ+ social housing scheme for over-55s, set to open in Manchester next year.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Public housing tenants are required to do far more than simply pay their rent on time, keep the noise down, and make sure their homes are kept in good condition.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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