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“We had a long hallway, and I sprinted down the hallway and opened the window,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
For a long time, Grace - who's now 14 and is from Yorkshire - felt doctors were dismissive of her pain.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to increase buying of U.S. long bonds starting Sept. 9 to keep a lid on yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Our Founders were not poor men, but they weren’t Griffin-rich by a long shot – that’s British monarchy levels of money.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
On hearing the bad news, they sobbed for a long time.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
“She’s been in this building ... longer than Karen Bass,” said Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who served on the committee under Raman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Though she is no longer Bandier’s live-in private chef, Tiedemann still sometimes cooks for Bandier and her family; she recently did Bandier’s birthday dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The wait could be longer for Pages, who underwent a minor surgery to repair the fracture in his left hand and is expected to miss at least four weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Like the UK, European heatwaves are becoming hotter, more frequent and longer.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
When I looked back—and I tried not to—Dresden was no longer a city anymore.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
The fees were so steep that other pay-TV providers, including Cox, Dish Network and, for many years, DirecTV, refused to carry the Dodgers channel — leading to one of the longest blackouts in sports TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nvidia describes its hardware as an investment with the “lowest token cost, highest revenue and longest life.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
But after being spared execution each time, he went on to be regarded as the longest serving prisoner in the US before dying in June at 101 years old.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
That is the longest it has ever taken parliament to pass an annual general budget.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“How about playing the longest game of freeze tag? Or roller Frisbee? Or doing a crab walk for a mile? Or fitting the most people into the cool tub?”
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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