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"That was always the most important thing for more than 20 years, and the only way you can leave the sport - without any regrets."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
"They say 'I want to leave on my own before they deport me.'"
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The tech giant is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees just as Skydance is also seeking volunteers to leave the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Tom Jones says he didn’t want to leave ‘The Voice UK,’ but ITV told him he is not returning as a coach due to ‘financial difficulty with insurance.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
I am finally here, she thinks, and she is happy to leave it at that.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Given our history, I am concerned that the money intended for our daughters may never reach them and that, if he leaves the country, recovering it could become even more difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
That leaves almost no mental space for the reflection a major transition requires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
BondBloxx Investment Management will focus on whether the Fed leaves the door open to additional interest-rate increases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Here’s what “You Can See Everything” reveals about Holmes and Evans’ finances, and what it leaves unanswered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Then, having picked off the cobwebs, she pressed the yarrow leaves to his forehead.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
Pa said, “Were it one a our’n? You think someone leaved the barn door ajar?”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
A luxury cruise ship on a years-long voyage around the world said it suspended operations due to extraordinarily high fuel costs, leaving passengers stranded in Cambodia.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered him late Sunday to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Outside the facility, guarded by camouflaged soldiers, AFP observed three construction trucks entering and leaving the base within 10 minutes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The discoveries suggest that researchers may eventually be able to interfere with the processes responsible for chronic inflammation while leaving the senescent cells themselves intact.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Cominginlate and leaving early most days, she had always missed the morning and afternoon prayer rings.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
The firm’s incoming chair Ramona Nee declined the leadership role, and top dealmaker Michael Aiello left for Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
He pulled off superb saves to deny Ben White, Martin Odegaard and Bruno Guimaraes and was left hoarse in the aftermath of a stunning victory at a windy Highbury.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
"I came to a country that supposedly champions liberty, justice, rule of law, only to be shocked when I entered these detention centers that all my rights were left outside," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
He decided while he was writing the agency’s crypto rules that he would not benefit from them, and he has kept to that position since he left the CFTC.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Soon after Broca's announcement, a German named Carl Wernicke identifies a second area on the left temporal lobe that separately controls the ability to understand speech.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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