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place

[pleys] / pleɪs /








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“Too often a place will just send up a cardboard shopping bag with the things you ordered in it.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

“I don’t know that the front end is the optimal place to be borrowing right now,” said Mark Malek, chief investment officer at Siebert Financial.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Getting faster and stronger takes priority no matter the time, no matter the place, no matter the situation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

She said: "Let me be clear, there is no place for criminal or unacceptable behaviours within the military."

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

We carry wooden condiment baskets to place on the green picnic tables under the awning.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

He traveled the world, talking with officials in places like Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Romania.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

Hosmer was also openly gay during a time when same-sex relationships were widely condemned, and in some places, illegal.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

A lot of the up-and-coming artists that I deal with, they don’t have a 9 to 5, they DJ three nights a week at different places.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

But—despite the constant suspicion around increasing surveillance—the fact is that many of us still would like to know more about what goes on in the places we can’t see.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

Grandma Sadie used to take us to places like this when we came to visit for the summer.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

If he must stand up, he’s placed behind a generously sized podium, robust enough to handle the full body-weight of his lean.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

Then in August, the shares plunged after the agency placed the therapy on clinical hold when spinal scans turned up abnormalities in some trial participants.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

"Understandably, it won't be placed back in circulation, but perhaps it deserves a spot in the Concord Room," the post on social media said, referring to a section of the library dedicated to local history.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Russia has placed a ban on its own diesel exports through the end of September and is widely expected to extend that moratorium.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Kate’s and Maggie’s bodies were placed in a public vault due to lack of funds.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

By placing the camera behind Abrams so it was "swinging around to look at what he's looking at," he choreographed it such that it "feels video game-like" from that first-person perspective.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Holyrood's Economy, Tourism and Energy Committee, external is investigating the energy use that will come from placing more data centres in Scotland.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

"Paradoxically, by placing additional constraints on the unknown absorber, we might have made the mystery even more intriguing," said Janusz J. Petkowski of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

The Lucas Museum pushes that approach further by making storytelling — not chronology, geography or medium — the organizing principle for an entire institution, placing illustration, comics and commercial art inside a curatorial framework.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Mrs. Kuen started placing the used teacups on a tray.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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