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[pees] / pis /




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That sales-tax treatment is a crucial piece of financing because the computer chips and servers inside the facilities represent a significant chunk of the projects’ costs, and because that equipment gets replaced every few years.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

What “Elsinore” does is reclaim a piece of personal reinvention that should be more widely known.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The other piece of Marsh’s I returned to over the years was his infamous tour diary on the 1975 Rolling Stones tour, titled “I Call and Call and Call On Mick.”

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

“How can you sell a piece of the country over a coffee table?”

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

“That’s a huge and useful piece of information. And you didn’t think to mention it before?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

By now you may have read many other similar pieces.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

The pieces are spirited across the border to Egypt, Libya, South Sudan and especially Chad, officials say.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The Florida resident stayed in touch with Zaggle on WhatsApp through the pandemic, regularly ordering new pieces from afar.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The ’70s and ’80s were the peak era of longform jazz—10- or even 15-minute solos were not uncommon—but none of the pieces here go for more than five minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

I catch bits and pieces of conversation from parents who came so their kids will one day be able to vote without fear.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

As we pieced together the details of how organisms work, the problem was not so much solved as dissolved.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

It’s a collection of songs pieced together from perfect-seeming snippets heard while passing open doors.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

They pieced together the story of the people she may have painted in Chennai in India, known then as Madras, including the Nawabs of Arcot, the local Mughal rulers.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

"If you took all the land on Earth and pieced it together, you would not cover the Pacific Ocean. The oceans are so big, and there's so much left to explore."

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

In the dream, he's pieced it back together and is angry that I never read it.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Pipeline developers are piecing together an alternative to Keystone XL using a trio of proposed pipelines to deliver heavy Canadian crude.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Nearly two weeks later, OpenAI is still piecing together what happened.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Her mother called the police after piecing together the breathless, frantic story Carla told.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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