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[lay-buhl] / ˈleɪ bəl /




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They wrote the album during a rough time personally, as they struggled to get out of a stymied label deal that cost them four years between records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Raye has enjoyed an impressive past few years since leaving her label after expressing frustration that they were holding out on releasing her debut album.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But the number on the label does not necessarily match the calories your body actually absorbs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

They looked like tiny illustrations of fish pulled from the label of a particularly fancy tin of sardines, with hooks attached.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

He shook his head and looked at the label of his Coke can.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Despite the mounting scandals, some in the book trade view the idea of labels with scepticism.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Still, Judge Myles ordered that "anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," including IV lines and syringes, as well as waste, like packaging, inserts, and labels.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s cool because it makes me think of how you were heavily inspired by labels like Stones Throw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

While young women, and Americans overall, have been shedding religious labels, young men have seen essentially no change in Deckman’s research.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

She doesn’t even rip the labels off anymore, like she used to.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

Most of the products a family may look at are labeled as “child protection,” and that brings home the role reversals involved in parenting your parents.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

If you are labeled as a limited partner, you don’t pay the 3.8% portion of the tax that goes to Medicare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

New York, Boston and Philadelphia were all in the firing line of the "Nor'easter" -- so labeled for its northeasterly winds -- as authorities warned of potential flooding, downed trees and damaged power lines.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Toy baskets are labeled in English, Spanish and Mandarin for transitional kindergarten students at a dual language Head Start program at Hillcrest Elementary School in Monterey Park on Aug. 21.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Mama leaves the kitchen and heads toward the formal dining room, where her catering orders are waiting to be packed and labeled.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The French group runs a scheme under which authors can get their books assessed and then labelled as a "human creation" for a small fee, with about 200 works so far given the stamp.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The motion attracted criticism from opposition parties and some Jewish groups, who labelled it an "attack on the Jewish community".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Dad labelled everything, recorded everything and backed it all up to cassette, over and over," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Earlier this year, when she was a backbench MP and not a government minister, Angela Rayner, herself a former care worker, labelled the proposals "un-British".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

To be labelled as the friend of a man who said that he didn’t like civilization—said it openly and, of all people, to the Controller—it was terrible.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The first-of-its-kind research, published in the journal Nutrition Research, could also help consumers better understand the distinction between different types of trans fats and provide greater clarity around labeling policies that may contribute to confusion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Manufacturers counter with front-of-the-package labeling that highlights added vitamins and minerals or the “heart healthy” benefits of supplied fiber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It’s also usually the manufacturer’s responsibility to ensure everything on those products’ labeling is accurate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Awareness of these findings appears to influence attitudes toward food labeling.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

He said he could use them for labeling his plants.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Several labelling schemes, including from Britain, France and Germany, were being showcased at the world's biggest book industry fair in Frankfurt this week, where the challenges posed by AI were hotly debated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

"We've been labelling clothes, putting Braille in baby books and organising the baby bag so that I know where everything is," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The country's largest and most influential traditional institution, the Buganda Kingdom, said it mourned with the people of Tooro following the death of their monarch, labelling him a valuable figure to Uganda.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

That month several major music industry organisations unveiled a labelling system for content created with generative AI that they would like to see widely adopted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

In a nutshell, the problem with labelling anything ‘Romantic’ is that it has subsequently come to mean virtually anything, from the poetry of Lord Byron to the songs of Taylor Swift.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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