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Those approaches can mean very different experiences for the people of Memphis, which makes up most of Shelby County.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

However, the chancellor is putting in place a new separate Pension Tax Allowance, which will mean that anyone who gets an income only from the state pension will not pay tax on it.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

That doesn’t mean any of it is coming to an airplane or airport near you anytime soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The new findings suggest that sauna bathing may produce a comparable short-term response, although this does not mean the two activities provide identical immune benefits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Do you think the marches made a difference—I mean in a big way. Did it make things better? Or about the same?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The software sector is back in style, and that means companies have more to prove when they report earnings in the days and weeks ahead.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

It is now calling on the authorities to expedite the proceedings, warning that the latest postponement means the case will enter its 15th year without a trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The ruling means that if the French first couple were to eventually win in the case, Owens' personal assets would be shielded.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

All this means that the proud libertarian has found himself with fewer friends than ever.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

To most people, the name means "This was once a horse," but to Don Alonso, it meant a steed above and beyond all other horses in the world!

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

The slinky, lurching “Husbands,” “Islands of Men” and frantic “Bow Down” sounded meaner and more electric than on the record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Financial Times's Danny Leigh dished out three stars, saying it paints a "portrait of tech rendering the young both sadder and meaner".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The meaner the Pistons get, the more their record improves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

In turn, increased efficiency allows them to be meaner toward prospective employees.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

It was the sort of thing she said just before she left, and it bothered me, because it seemed as if she wanted him to be meaner, less good.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

And more than a few of my closest, meanest friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

"Candidates should not try to be the meanest sheriff."

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

But the standout character is "queen bee" Regina, head of the Plastics clique and the meanest of the mean girls.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

I was behind the wheel of the biggest, meanest, greenest, most American street-legal machine in existence.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

I could go on for days and days about everything I saw in his palace, but the meanest rooms there, which were assigned to the scrubdragons, were worthy of human emperors.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Many people who write a check here or there or help with tax returns don’t consider themselves caregivers, which they said meant handling hands-on medical tasks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

A royal wedding in Paris in the summer of 1572 was meant to ease tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Eventually, somebody delivers what is meant to be the conversation-ending argument: Then book a hotel.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I don’t think it was meant for end users or consumers,” David Nieborg, a professor who studies the platform economy at the University of Toronto, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

It meant that the reindeer were coming down from the fells.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Back then, many homeowners were holding adjustable-rate mortgages with payments that were ballooning, meaning that they would soon be facing a much higher mortgage payment that they could not afford.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

The protest organising committee, which calls itself SADAR, meaning "aware" in Bahasa Indonesia, said the action was meant to mark a "revolution that is being proclaimed".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Anthropic is giving new meaning to the concept of a total addressable market ahead of its initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The researchers examined whether the spiders displayed "sleep rebound," meaning they compensated for interrupted sleep by increasing their subsequent sleep.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

I will work very hard to make sure my pictures match the meaning of the words the pharaoh wishes to convey.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman