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The new study examined dikes, which are narrow fractures that could theoretically serve as channels for ocean water moving upward through the ice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The worry is that a similar failure by an AI agent pursuing a narrow goal could unintentionally damage emails, banking and other programs people depend on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Even within the states’ artificially narrow frame, a 27% share of feature-film box office doesn’t by itself establish that this merger will substantially lessen competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Texas to question whether modern forfeiture practice can be squared with its narrow historical roots.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Behind it, strung like railroad compartments off a narrow aisle, were Tante Anna’s, Betsie’s, and our brother Willem’s.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The narrower question raised by Freeman’s tweet is whether states can bar—and in cases like Wisconsin, already have barred—betting on elections by voters.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The problem is that the longer you wait, the narrower that window gets and the less options you have,” Jeff Judge, a certified financial planner at Chesapeake Financial Planners, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Seismologist Lucy Jones has a narrower definition, in which there are two earthquakes in the same seismic sequence within 0.4 units of magnitude of each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
But those alternatives are often narrower than the TPS program, so eliminating TPS will make many of its beneficiaries subject to imminent deportation, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
In the dark the tunnel got narrower and then wider again.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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It’s important to appreciate that the students pressed for the narrowest, most modest ruling possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said that de la Espriella had "won easily", even though his lead of 0.96 percentage points in the preliminary count is the narrowest in recent Colombian history.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
He starts his four-year term against a tangled web of war, inflation, nosebleed debt—and one of the sharpest and narrowest stock market rallies ever.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
With imports from the U.S. declining 1.2% for the month, Canada’s goods-trade surplus with its neighbor widened to C$7.07 billion from a C$2.86 billion in February, the narrowest since May 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
The Painted Table was more than fifty feet long, perhaps half that wide at its widest point, but less than four feet across at its narrowest.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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But "the AI buildout is climbing onto a steeper section of track just as the gap between capital spending and internal cash generation narrows", he warned.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
She said: "It narrows the pavement to the point that if you're using a pushchair or a wheelchair you can't easily get past."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Freitas expects the ADRs to trade between at a 30%-35% premium in the very short term before that premium narrows due to limited passive buying for the U.S. paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Burrows modeled the notion of directing as a duty to truly bring a show’s cast and writing into people’s living rooms and lives, epitomizing the idea that laughter narrows the distance between strangers.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
She looks up at me and narrows her eyes.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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However, Robinhood narrowed its full-year outlook for adjusted operating expenses to $2.675 billion to $2.775 billion, whereas prior expectations were for $2.7 billion to $2.825 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Boeing’s overall second-quarter net loss of $428 million narrowed from the $612 million loss it posted a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The adjusted loss per share, which excludes nonrecurring items, narrowed to 76 cents from $1.24, but that was much wider than the average per-share loss estimate, 17 cents, compiled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The losses narrowed in 2024 and 2025, though they remained above prepandemic levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
“You have no right to do this. Any of it,” Seven’s mother said, her eyes narrowed at Mr. Pepperhorn.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Boeing reported a second-quarter net loss of $428 million, narrowing from a $612 million loss in the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In the second quarter, many regionals reported a dynamic of narrowing net interest margins but higher returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Last season, he generally played on the left of a 4-2-3-1, narrowing in from the wing and leaving the left-back to provide the width.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
What the launch of Kimi 3 has crystallized is the realization that the gap between China’s best AI plays, and the most sophisticated American technologies, is narrowing rapidly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Belet tightened her grip on Kasusu, her gaze narrowing into laser intensity.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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