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The seven-sided abode features an interior court, private balconies, a catering-style kitchen with light gray cabinets and a dining nook, and a living room accompanied by glass walls and light-wood floors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Untouched by the 2025 California wildfires, the dwelling features floor-to-ceiling glass windows that invite in an abundance of natural light and create a seamless indoor-outdoor flow.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Information can travel at the speed of light, but experience can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
However, the lack of detail in the league's eligibility criteria has been brought to light by Kanter Freedom, who finished his playing career with the Boston Celtics in 2022.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
His eye shot open just as, in the distant forest, the emerald light of Progress clapped out.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Yak boosters say the animals leave a lighter hoof-print on the land because they eat one-third to one-half of what cows eat and produce less methane gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was allegedly seen kneeling near grass at the site of the fire and later found to have matches and a lighter, the Spokane County Sheriff said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Authorities believe the suspect used matches or a lighter to spark the blaze, which Nowels said they believe started within 10 square meters of where the suspect was initially spotted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Any theory involving a hidden attractive force may need to account for the possibility that dark matter becomes effectively lighter as the Universe evolves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
A bit of faith still remaining, he set up his machinery and tried again, using a lighter stone.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Their central supermassive black holes may then have become locked in a gravitational struggle that launched the lightest black hole toward the edge of the combined galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
By contrast, the lightest Specs model weighs 132 grams.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
It was befitting of an important office job, with only the lightest indicators of riches and omnipotence.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
On May 28, GoPro announced that its new Mission 1 line of products was available, describing the series as "the world's smallest, lightest, and most rugged 8K and 4K Open Gate cinema cameras."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The webbing was constructed of the lightest possible stone to lessen the weight on the ribs.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
The number was lighted up on the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Below a lighted area at the building’s peak are thousands of hand-stamped words referring to Obama’s speech in Selma, the same one carved on the building’s exterior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
“America’s longest running newscast signs off for the last time,” Kathan said in the small dimly lighted studio in the CBS Broadcast Center on Manhattan’s West Side.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Her detailed, beautifully lighted paintings, of humble industrial scenes of corrugated ductwork, draped construction tarps and snaking wires, elevate these humble, utilitarian objects into tactile formal experiments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The production has developed new ways of working, using technology and lighting cues to help deaf and hearing performers and crew work together.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
His attorneys said the blast melted decorative lighting on his balcony, charred the railing and melted sections of artificial turf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The order was issued because two workers were observed operating equipment without adequate lighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Fires in Europe have even experienced the outbreak of a "fire cloud" or pyrocumulonimbus that can generate wind and lighting -- also seen in Australia during the "Black Summer".
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would necessitate the lighting of his forge fire, and would take nearer two hours than one.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
When we told them we lived next to Eileen and Judith, their eyes lit up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Near brightly lit cave entrances, several kinds of algae and plants grew in the water.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the Small Heaven School in Chitwan district, near Kathmandu, which Purja had once attended, students and staff lit candles and mourned his death.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Convenience stores in Kumamoto remain open and brightly lit, although some shelves for fresh food like rice balls sit empty.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Lloyd did a backflip and lit on Tansy.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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