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[pees] / pis /




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I missed genuine Italian markets — the kind where they carve a slab of Parmesan out of a freshly cut wheel and offer you a piece to taste.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The mobile number was then put through police intelligence databases, which revealed a single piece of intelligence dating back to 2018, linked to that number, but with no name attached.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

He describes his efforts as “more akin to whittling at a piece of wood—for I am removing word after word until what remains seems to be the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

However, Van Der Beek himself ended up building what would become the couple’s favorite piece: a wooden daybed that he designed not long after they welcomed their fifth child, Gwendolyn, in 2018.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

‘We’ve still got to find the third piece of the Nanuak, remember? “Coldest of all, the darkest light.”

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

To the extent that you were already not familiar: Our man wakes up every day and wings it with whatever international chess pieces are available to him.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2026

Whether or not City further bolster their squad, Maresca will hope to have a greater number of pieces to place on his board - a departure from Guardiola's approach of maintaining a smaller squad.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Reworking her pieces felt, she writes, like a “soothing exercise, a way to return to a younger self and tinker with her words and assumptions.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived in before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Mr. Lew knew everything about the pieces, but he wasn’t the most enterprising salesman.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"We finally pieced together the geologic records necessary to test this hypothesis."

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

Ever since Pikachu appeared on the corner of the dugout wall next to the camera well last month, the Angels have pieced together some big moments.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

From what biographers have pieced together, Ko was born in Osaka in 1952 to parents originally from Jeju Island, which sits off the southern coast of what is now South Korea.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Suzanne Sando, a lead analyst in fraud management at Javelin Strategy & Research, says people often underestimate how much information can be pieced together from what feels like harmless conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Katherine’s angles were a little off, so she’d gotten only two shots with complete names and addresses and phone numbers, and two other witness names that could be pieced together from multiple shots.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Chief government veterinary officer Beth Cookson said scientists were still piecing together the details of how H5 might be spreading.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

Trump’s emissaries—his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his realtor friend Steve Witkoff—came close to piecing together such a deal through Pakistan emissaries.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

But there can be tremendous value in piecing together the difficult truth, and I’ve rarely seen two films so equipped to emphasize the importance in doing just that.

From Salon May 25, 2026

It was interesting piecing together fragments of stories I’d heard from Miss Sadie.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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