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An analysis for the Senate Committee on Appropriations in July also found it would cost the state tens of millions of dollars annually to implement telematics for the public and the state’s fleet of vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Above all, Swanberg is interested in one strand of this knotty dilemma: how an ex turns from trash to treasure the minute someone else claims them from the dumpster.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

He’s willing to place intriguing romantic possibilities in Wendy’s path that she obliviously kicks out of the way, making the point that love is capricious.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

At the dinner table, Wendy looks and acts more like one of the kids than their potential stepmother, especially when she makes Jack promise to make pancakes in the morning.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

She’s doing so much better, in fact, that Dr. Johansen allows members of the public—Joey’s friends, mostly—to attend her commencement.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

By Aug. 13, however, the number had jumped to 54 households, “with new move ins happening nearly every day,” the housing department said in a report.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

I’ve also heard from various people telling me their whole financial picture, down to the pennies in their accounts, and the ins and outs of their divorces, estate fights and bad relationships with financial professionals.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Similar experimental systems have long been used to study how heat moves through slow moving materials, making them useful stand ins for the rocky interiors of planets.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

BBC News NI spoke to pupils, teachers and principals on the ins and outs of a debate exercising school pupils and teachers alike.

From BBC May 16, 2026

It was made of string, but it had more contortions, ins and outs, twists and turns and dips and doodles than the brain of Albert Einstein himself.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

The last landed, inned, or stowed, of any sort of merchandise: so called by the water-side porters, carmen, &c.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

They are likewise to carry home corn, which is not inned till August and September.

From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton

In 1622 Sir Henry Appleton, the owner of the marsh, agreed to give one-third of it to Joas Croppenburg, a Dutchman skilled in the making of dikes, if he "inned" the marsh.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

Catcher Will Smith, who the Dodgers also activated from the IL Tuesday, put the ball in the air in his first four at-bats and was finally rewarded in the seventh inning with an RBI double.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Teoscar Hernández’s two-run home run in the sixth inning helps power the Dodgers to a 6-1 win over the Detroit Tigers to end a rough month at the plate for L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Four of those six baserunners reached before Snell briefly left the game in the third inning.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Evan Phillips took over on the mound in the bottom of the inning.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

In the bottom of the inning, Jason, Frank, and Joe were the first three batters up.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon




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