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Police had falsely accused Walters of the crime simply to knock him down a peg?
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Business investment accounts for about 19% of GDP, making it the next-largest peg.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
A massive parasitic outbreak has taken Taco Bell down a peg, and now it has to rebuild its momentum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
NBC News reported that, according to internal estimates by the Defense Department peg the amount at $80 billion to $100 billion.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Setting the peg game on a table, she hurried to intercept him.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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The IEA pegs the amount displaced by EVs at 1.5 million barrels a day in the second quarter, compared with less than 900,000 barrels a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Talladega Nights” pegs this missing link between America’s urban past and its exurban future from its opening seconds, putting a quote about “hot, nasty, badass speed” in the mouth of New York Swell Eleanor Roosevelt.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It pegs KPJ Healthcare and Sunway Healthcare as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As Tuchel's successor Sir Gareth Southgate found when he played Alexander-Arnold in midfield at Euro 2024, a major tournament is no time for experiments or square pegs in round holes.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The object was to jump pegs like checkers until you had only one left, which sounded simple at first.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Media reports late last month had pegged the figure at $70 billion based on information given to investors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Chatfield asked the Los Angeles Times in 1997 in response to criticism from community members and some local officials who pegged his nonprofit as inconveniencing residents by helping homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
That RMD is pegged to a government formula based on a person’s projected lifespan, and it starts out at about 4% of the account value but is larger at older ages.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Blown away in a 26-minute opening set, fourth seed Gauff was twice pegged back from a break up in a scrappy second set before coming through a 16-point tie-break to force a decider.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
I set the broom back in its place and went upstairs, where I stripped off the bedding, carried it outside, and pegged it to the line.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Public IB maintains an overweight rating on Malaysian plantations, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Public IB maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian plantations sector, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Goldman Sachs strategist on Thursday charted five-year rolling returns on the all-important 10-year Treasury note — pegging it as the worst such period for returns in more than a century.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hong Leong maintains a neutral rating on Malaysian banking sector, pegging Alliance Bank Malaysia as his top pick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
After the first two weeks, Turner was pegging lobster claws as fast as Willis and not getting pinched any more than anyone else.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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