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line

[lahyn] / laɪn /


NOUN
cord, rope
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NOUN
written communication
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The bottom line for others: The firm is making more money than it ever has.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"Engineers have been using the vent heaters to melt any potential ice that may be clogging the line," Nasa said, adding that they were continuing to orient the vent toward the Sun.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

That total was in line with expectations of a $186-million domestic opening.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Real life is less faithful to that neat story line, according to Tyler Goodspeed, a Harvard and Cambridge-trained economic historian and the chief economist of Exxon Mobil.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

The problem, of course, was that we were grateful for food of any kind: we stood in line for hours, this third year of the occupation, to get whatever was available.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom