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[pair] / pɛər /




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South Korea—whose constitution treats North Koreans as citizens—has argued it should receive the pair of POWs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The pair were the only two members of the England squad to miss training on Monday morning, with the players following their own individual programmes.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The question has percolated for Walmart all year, fueled by its new digital shelf labels and a pair of patents—one to dynamically update prices online and another to recommend prices based on anticipated demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those disparate visions — along with crucial endorsements and influxes of cash — helped the pair define clear brands and constituencies going into the primary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The room had a cavernous feeling despite the windows behind the desk—which was well-ordered with a blotter, a lamp, a telephone, and a wire basket of papers weighed down by a pair of scissors.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Rather than ending with one separated pair, the original connection breaks and new particle pairs form.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Crisp, with notes of green apple and ripe pear and a kiss of pepper and herbs, it pairs with everything from seafood to salad to schnitzel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

He has over 14,000 denim items, some of which he saved from dumpsters, others were donated, and some are his own unwashed pairs of raw denim jeans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Instead of studying photons or other relatively long-lived quantum systems, the researchers searched for entanglement between pairs of Z bosons, massive particles that exist for only a tiny fraction of a second before decaying.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The night-balloons puttered into the room next, their tiny candles casting small halos over everything like pairs of eyes.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

That marks a sea change from five years ago, when $92.5 billion of World Bank financing was paired with $24.4 billion of private capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Across several kinds of brain cells, this paired view revealed a consistent signature of 3D genome reorganization in Alzheimer's disease and helped us prioritize regulatory regions for future mechanistic and therapeutic investigation."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

The 2025 review paired UK parliamentary constituencies - for MPs - and former Welsh Senedd areas to create 16 new constituencies for May's Senedd expansion, with six Members of the Senedd representing each.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

When our instructor, Master Kim, paired us together for partner drills, I clenched my teeth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

An English Tudor right next door, then a large Old Mission style estate, next a sprawling Craftsman, and last, the white house that Mr. Bender paired with the word careful.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

One year after the death of Giorgio Armani, his brand's designs are pairing traditional elegance with crystals and sequins for the spring-summer collection presented on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Xi is the guarded half of the pairing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Despite a rich voice and a lifelong passion for sports, pairing the two was something that just happened, not something that was planned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The US pairing of Alison Lee and Coughlin were always in control against Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Celine Boutier, taking their foursomes match 3&2 as the US opened a 2-0 lead.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Jerry came in I looked up, saw that it was not Francis, and began shifting the bases in and out of various other pairing possibilities.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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