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Sheriff’s deputies responded around 10:30 p.m., and the woman, who has not been identified, agreed to leave voluntarily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
With the light fading on the Bernardus course in the Netherlands, Jennifer Kupcho holed a nerve-shredding putt from the edge of the 18th green to snatch a point and leave the teams tied at 8-8.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Kilu's wife "couldn't say much, but told me: 'don't leave your brother on the mountain'".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ironically, applying them to my dilemma made it easier to understand how two sides could leave the same room with entirely different perceptions of what had occurred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I don’t leave others amazed, mystified, or utterly beguiled.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He leaves behind a poem called “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Fernández’s adaptation is anxious to turn tragedy into a sermon, offering theatergoers moral solace where Sophocles leaves his audience in a contemplative state of stunned silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
If Conor leaves Las Vegas with the WBC belt around his waist, you would not bet against his father being back for defence number one.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
That leaves $24,500 of taxable income, all of it taxed at the 10% rate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Theo leaves and without him my room seems even quieter than ever, even stiller than ever.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Curly Leafed Collards: Those curly leaved varieties Smith mentions can make them look more like kale than the large, smooth leaves we typically think of with collards.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
“As soon as all the trees leaved out, I was like, ‘I’m staying forever,’” she said of spring’s recent start, singing those last few words in a soprano vibrato.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Want to try out this delicately leaved vine?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The etchings’ chief subject is nature’s bounty and mysteriousness, manifest in big, densely leaved trees and densely treed hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
Most of the trees were short, heavily leaved.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Former vice presidents typically receive six months of Secret Service protection after leaving office, but former President Biden extended the coverage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
For now, Madrid's arrival does not mean Barcelona is leaving the Formula 1 calendar.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
However, bringing that treatment approach to patients with operable pancreatic cancer is expected to take years, leaving an urgent need for additional strategies for people whose tumors can still be surgically removed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
She had no interest in leaving, but brought the offer to Jeff Bezos and asked if he could match it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I am very good—expert, really—at leaving things closed in locked-away spaces.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Some fans arrived as early as 06:00 to get a spot in front of LeRoyal Monceau hotel to catch a glimpse of the star before she left.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
At the time of Biadasz’s injury, Slaughter was a leading candidate in the team’s left guard competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
“There’s hardly any space left for the locals.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He was left out of De Zerbi's Premier League squad after a proposed deadline-day return to former club Everton collapsed.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
What I think makes Aunt J so beautiful isn’t her shape or her hair; it’s the dimple on her left cheek.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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