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Rare-earth metals with names like dysprosium and neodymium are used in magnets that go into electric motors.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 24, 2026
The researchers suggest that the growing gas giant acted somewhat like a structural barrier, preventing most larger particles from crossing its orbital region while still allowing finer dust to move around it.
From Science Daily β Oct. 24, 2026
"Sometimes a ban makes things worse. Protesting is a right -- it's like with children, when you forbid something, it becomes even more tempting," one employee remarked to AFP.
From Barron's β Oct. 24, 2026
Every month, you can load money that was disbursed from the 529 onto the card and instruct your niece only to use it for qualified expenses, like rent and food.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 24, 2026
Oxygen and nutrients can cross the blood-brain barrier, but many dangerous substances like bacteria cannot.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Hayes explained that this type of segmentation could be used to develop tailored products that account for the specific "sour liker" taste profile.
From Science Daily β Apr. 29, 2024
But I was a very active liker of “A Ghost Story,” which, as with “The Green Knight,” seems to unfold in some eerie netherworld between life and death.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 7, 2021
Only once did I go on a date with a sarcasm liker — she included it to warn people she’s found who get offended, especially in the Midwest.
From Washington Post β Nov. 8, 2018
He’s not doing anything inappropriate or otherwise creepy, and he’s not sending you inappropriate messages—he’s just an inveterate liker.
From Slate β Apr. 18, 2016
But for him, liker than not, I’d now be in theer lock-up at Lydney.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
Mercy, Shakespeare wrote, "Earthly power doth then show likest God's/ When mercy seasons justice."
From Time β Jan. 17, 2012
Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
Make vs to loue him next thee, either as likest our selues, or as thy childe, and therefore our brother, or as one ordayned to bee a member of one selfe same countrie with vs.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
From his eyes gleams “a luster unlovely, likest to fire.”
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
He is a man of merit, an hidalgo by birth, and—whether thou likest or not to hear it, Pedro—a favorite of the king.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober
After viciously hitting step-back threes, trash talking anyone who dares tempt him and racking up two NBA scoring titles, Doncic just likes to stay home, maybe get lunch or play cards.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 23, 2026
For more than seven years, his company has been hearing from the likes of Apollo, Blackstone, Blue Owl, Cliffwater and KKR.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 22, 2026
The Grammy-nominated artist, who has worked with the likes of Beyoncé, Zara Larsson and Madonna, was due to start a run of shows for his latest album Bulldozer!! next month.
From BBC β Oct. 21, 2026
"The biggest and most obvious difference is the squad depth that they've added through some brilliant signings in the likes of Anthony Gordon and Karim Adeyemi," said BBC Sport's Spanish football reporter Elizabeth Conway.
From BBC β Oct. 20, 2026
Not out there, where I would have to face the likes of Miss Buckner and Mr. Haber.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Skerritt said that one of the things he liked most when he first read the script was that "the woman becomes a hero", referring to Weaver's character, Ripley.
From BBC β Oct. 22, 2026
“We liked the ingredients, and we loved the competitor,” Rays president of baseball operation Erik Neander said of Baker.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 21, 2026
I wasn’t super close to his kids but I liked them, and they were always respectful of my role in their father’s life.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 20, 2026
I also sort of liked the kind of mumbling charisma that he had for a while, because he seemed like very much a regular guy.
From Salon β Oct. 16, 2026
"You liked the school in Ikuma?" he asked.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
These little things also have cute avatars, which you can customize to your liking.
From Slate β Oct. 14, 2026
Klopp has never built his success merely on star names - he has always taken a liking to undervalued and overlooked players.
From BBC β Sep. 23, 2026
With nearly every surface painted to her liking, Jordan pictures herself staying in the apartment for a while.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
And bringing inflation back down to the Fed’s 2% annual target has been another top focus of his, albeit with too few details for Wall Street’s liking.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 27, 2026
What’s the difference between liking Jasmine as a friend and liking Jasmine as a girlfriend?
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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