occasion
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Cartier also has to spend heavily on advertising to ensure the brand is at the top of consumers’ minds when celebrating a special occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
DeChambeau wanted a similar intervention, but Trump apparently did not get involved on this occasion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Wharton may be an international rookie with only four caps, but he has the class and maturity for the big occasion, as he proved when Palace won the FA Cup and the Conference League.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
That disagreement became the occasion for a much broader critique.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
On one occasion, when Endurance was moored to a floe, the crew hauled out the motor sledge.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Baszucki disclosed the number of Roblox shares in his Roth IRA at least 49 times since 2020, as well as sales on six occasions since March 2021 that yielded about $48 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“He walked right out from under me on two occasions with no security at all,” said the former official, who requested anonymity to discuss operations in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Sacks has warned on many occasions, according to Curi, against “regulatory capture” that would stifle competition and benefit the biggest labs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
During that time, he twice ran for the Labour leadership - he lost on both occasions.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Only on rare occasions did their good behavior falter: for example, when peas were unexpectedly served at luncheon.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
"The absence of our lawyers was occasioned by the state itself, not by ourselves," said Besigye.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
His dismay at Tehran’s recent impertinence, however, has occasioned helter-skelter statements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
He said it was "not a resignation occasioned by fault or by any admission of liability".
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
Oh, Shun, you scarce can think of the Panic this Word occasioned.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Thursday’s D-Day anniversary — the 80th — is occasioning somber and anxious reflections about the fate of the Atlantic alliance.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Land in and around Cal State Long Beach is the sacred ancestral home of the Tongvas’ divine founder and lawgiver, Chingishish, and ancient human remains have been discovered there over the years, occasioning ceremonial reburials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
In his lawsuit seeking damages for violations of his constitutional rights, Kilborn says he had used this identical hypothetical for 10 years without occasioning comment, let alone campus convulsions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
"The CPS has today informed the court that we will seek a retrial of PC Ellen Bettley-Smith for an assault on Dalian Atkinson occasioning actual bodily harm," CPS head of special crime, Rosemary Ainslie, said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2021
Theresa poked a finger in a soft spot of plaster, occasioning a moist avalanche.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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