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It also found that there was a widely held belief that migrants calling from small boats exaggerated the distress, meaning the coastguard underestimated the emergency.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

However, the home was still in the contingency phase, meaning an offer was accepted and the sale was dependent on certain conditions being met.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The second payment will be treated as an advance against future profit participation, meaning the producers keep a stake in the franchise rather than selling it back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Those consequences now compete with the original experience of Sept. 11 for a place in its meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was such a strange little soliloquy, but I could feel her sincerity, her meaning, her gratitude.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The Washington monument is both architecture and sculpture, a powerful symbol with layered meanings for different generations from Washington’s time to ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

You get a little tetchy when it comes to laying out the meanings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

The style blends Iranian, Greco-Roman, Germanic and Asian influences into a coherent visual language whose motifs persist even as meanings alter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

These various meanings of ‘hypothesis’ serve to explain its peculiar distribution through seventeenth-century texts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton