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“Without maritime trade, supply chains would fragment and the global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt,” the group said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I don't really know what more to say on it, to be honest.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some don’t know how to, and others cannot afford to.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
“You are the only person I know who could get me to listen to a Sleater-Kinney spinoff. But I will. Now that you’ve told me to.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
He doesn’t know any local people in Manila, besides the priests at the university and two other men from the Grant who’d been stranded with him.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Mourinho does not believe the match will decide the campaign as there are seven more league-phase games to come, but he knows every point matters.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some people he knows went into blue-collar professions, for example, and “it’s worked out great.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Nobody knows exactly what he’s going to do statistically, if he’s going to be exactly what he was,” Adams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Xu knows this not only as a scholar, now at Stanford University after years in Hong Kong and London, but from experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Although sulfones are successful at arresting the disease in some patients, they don’t work for all patients, and no one knows why.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“I knew what I came to L.A. for. It was music,” said Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He said the documents show what the city "knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He knew the work might bore him but figured it would expose him to potential employers offering more exciting roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did not disclose all it knew about air toxicity after 9/11.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It’s possible they knew each other as teenagers.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
What “Elsinore” does is reclaim a piece of personal reinvention that should be more widely known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Sam Altman has in recent years become one of the most well known tech CEOs in the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
During a trip home to Argentina, he met Evelyn Penelope Jane Rose, known as Penny, an Englishwoman who was working as a teacher in a British-style boarding school in Buenos Aires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I use the zest of a whole lemon rather than its juice — lots of brightness, no unnecessary liquid — plus dried thyme, garlic, onion and enough black pepper to make itself known.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The commanding officer was there, too, and Luc, which reassured me—of course I should have known that the commanding officer wouldn’t issue me any instructions without Luc’s knowing.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Mogul Vision and Mogenroth have previously denied knowing about the singer and the teen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I want peace of mind knowing that if anything unexpected happens to either one of us, the other will be OK.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The conditions cannot be imposed without a state’s knowing and voluntary consent.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Nun-novice and anti-gun violence activist Nanette, 35, has been carrying her mother’s secret for five years, not knowing whether one or both of her sisters had been entrusted with it too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
If the Americans launch an attack without knowing where the land mines are, the results will be disastrous.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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