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Symptoms of Ebola, which are similar to the flu or malaria, include fever, headache and tiredness, and can begin suddenly within two to 21 days of infection.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Write guidance such as “Don’t begin responses by praising the question, idea or plan. Just answer it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Construction is expected to begin this year, trying to minimize impact on normal campus activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Add pandemic adolescence, expensive housing and stagnant wages, and different choices begin to look less mysterious than inevitable.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
I get the broom and begin sweeping the kitchen floor.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Her playlist - she creates one for every major event - is already being built as she begins to visualise how that might feel.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Fantasy Premier League season begins on Friday 21 August so, to help managers as you tinker with your teams before the deadline, we've gone through all 20 teams and analysed some of their assets.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Julian Hoffman’s remarkable new memoir begins with birds: “The sky was a harbor all of a sudden. Wherever you looked, wings furrowed wakes in the air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Open, which begins at the end of the month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
When enough cells are damaged, the body begins to break down.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Charlotte began searching for another way of controlling Billy's seizures.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The 1.8-acre estate, which spans two adjacent parcels in the luxurious waterfront community, went into contract just one week after the agent began quietly marketing it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Soon after the war began, the U.S. shifted dozens of missile interceptors and other assets from South Korea to the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A whistle roused us at 4:00 when, without even shaking the straw from clothes and hair, the stampede began for the ration of bread and coffee in the center room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Musk has already begun clearing land in the area, prompting some residents to make difficult decisions about whether they’ll stay or go.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nineteen Manhattan office buildings have begun conversions so far this year, and another 17 are planned, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
There, she’d begun to plant her roots in an artistic community, spending most of the last year and some change nestled in with her new flock of bohemian neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The equipment revealed that below the silt, where they had begun to look, there was something huge waiting to be uncovered.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The results showed that greater screen time beginning in childhood was associated with better cognitive processing in adolescence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The third is now beginning: figuring out how to pay for the system without making it less useful.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Is this the beginning of a disaster or a strange aberration?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
But Theo said he hadn’t been outside all night, not since we got home, and the rain didn’t start until much later—it was only beginning to rain when I reached Central.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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