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"He wanted a straight line to be drawn on a map to look like a straight line in reality if you followed a compass bearing," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Some risks can be largely sidestepped: choosing not to build on an earthquake fault line, for example, or in flood plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“In line with Jackson, two other Courts of Appeals have now affirmed the common-sense remedy that this illegality should be stopped.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The disarray and unsettledness that characterizes the end of this trial is unsatisfying but also in line with the whole of the Clancy saga.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
We stepped through an opening in the bush line and entered the back paths, following the bare earth created by generations of rez feet, doing the cross-lots drift.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Hernández lined it into the left-center field gap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
It's strange because I had a look at how his Bayer Leverkusen side lined up when they won the Bundesliga, and they were pretty dominant possession-wise.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Across Cairo, a megalopolis home to over 26 million people, major streets have been lined with Chinese and Egyptian flags, as well as billboards showing Sisi and Xi.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Outside a nine-story apartment building that was struck, residents lined up at a tent outside on Thursday morning, applying for compensation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Two ordering lines, each with a handmade sign, written on lined notebook paper.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Further analysis indicated that the synovial lining may develop from two sources, cartilage and surrounding joint fibroblasts.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
There’s a silver lining to rising interest rates and soaring borrowing costs: Corporate pension funds have finally rebounded after years of deep deficits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
When a friend pointed out some weighted bags lining the path at the bottom of the staircase one day, the siblings quickly abandoned the water jug idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
If there is a silver lining, the participation rate of workers in their prime — ages 25 to 54 — was much higher in July and not far from an all-time high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Apparently he’d paid a tailor in Isfahan to sew them into the lining of the super expensive suitcases so the guards at the airport wouldn’t think to inspect them.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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