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Syrskyi does not deny that such situations occur on the front line.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
That’s where sequence-of-returns risk comes in: The order in which gains and losses occur can matter greatly when you are withdrawing money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
These effects may occur because the neck plays an important role in helping the brain understand the position and movement of the head.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Salesforce stock rises as Bank of America double upgrades the software stock with AI disruption unlikely to occur.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
While tsunamis can occur anywhere in the world, the shape of the coast in the Tohoku region makes them particularly devastating.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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One promising technique relies on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, which occurs when energetic particles inside galaxy clusters scatter radiation from the cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Estrangement typically occurs on a continuum—and parents don’t always recognize the signs, says Kristina Scharp, a communication professor at Rutgers University who studies the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
This involves preparing the atomic nuclei so that their spins are aligned before fusion occurs, which can increase the fusion reaction rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
There are also psychological and behavioral reasons why incessant checking of your portfolio occurs — and why it can be counterproductive.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
As I laugh with my new friend, I feel a comforting squeeze in my heart, and it occurs to me that I had nothing to worry about.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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That progress occurred, she said, even as homelessness went up citywide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It did not say when the arrest or court hearing occurred.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s unlikely that, even if fraud occurred, she was the driving force behind any of it.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the early hours of the following morning Gethings sat just inches away from Armstrong in the VIP viewing box at the Kennedy Space Center when Apollo 17 lift-off occurred at 00:33 local time.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Strater said similar ICE arrests were occurring in the Coachella Valley and in Ventura County, where a preliminary injunction is in place restricting civil arrests without a warrant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Currently, the most extreme high tides are occurring between 10 and 11 a.m., with milder secondary high tides between 11 p.m. and midnight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Their findings indicate that naturally occurring dairy trans fats act differently in the body from industrial trans fats.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
But attacks are intensifying, with more than half of all strikes on locomotives since then occurring this year alone, according to the state-owned operator.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The first, occurring between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, probably was made possible by genetic changes in our bodies: namely, by evolution of the modern anatomy permitting modern speech or modern brain function, or both.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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