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Those techniques could eventually reveal effects that do not fit within physicists' current understanding of the universe and potentially offer clues about physics beyond existing theories.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
How does it fit with the rest of my portfolio?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She was deemed fit enough to enter her pleas.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He’s fit right in, making a now Shohei Ohtani-less projected postseason rotation still the most daunting the sport has seen in decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He was still small enough to fit, curled into a little ball, in Bat’s two hands.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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The people included in the study may have been healthier and fitter than the general population.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
But he insists he feels fitter than ever and he dreams of "living to 120."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Born in Prescot, Sir George was educated at Huyton Secondary School before working as a fitter, engineer and further education lecturer.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
"She has done a great job of getting more consistent, she is fitter than I've ever seen her and she is so committed to being controlled out there."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
"And hast been in the battle, clean contrary to your obedience. A boy to break a father's heart! At your age a rod to your breech were fitter than a sword in your fist, ha!"
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Those who have played there before explain that the opening 20 minutes are the most crucial period, even for some of the fittest athletes in sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Riglar added: "She was one of the fittest players on the team anyway."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
"The process is just a little bit survival of the fittest," Highton says.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Even the fittest of us were flagging now, and soon the hollows would catch up to us and we’d have to face them in the middle of the street.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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One camera was fitted with a cover called a “Flock sock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
To investigate, the researchers fitted five mature saltwater crocodiles with satellite tracking devices.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
On 18 January, she underwent emergency surgery, in which part of her bowel was removed and a stoma fitted.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Galileo never really fitted in at the University of Pisa and soon started looking for another post.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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But fitting all the evidence into one explanation remains difficult.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The 800m was finally reintroduced to the Olympic programme in 1960 and, four years later, the then-22-year-old Brightwell went to her first Olympics, fitting training around her job as a teacher.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s fitting that this book, which presents the afterlife as a play of voices, has been adapted as an opera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
San Francisco is still bolting new pieces together, including fitting Mike Evans into the offense on the fly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Next up, a song called “Road to Nowhere,” which is quite fitting, given what surrounds her—miles and miles of ranch fencing, and then brown and green and yellow hills marked with green scrub.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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