preliminary
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In a statement Thursday, the Napa County agricultural commissioner’s office said preliminary reports showed agricultural producers saw roughly $65 million in agricultural losses from the Pickett fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
In 2025, a preliminary study carried out with the 7-Tesla MRI scanner at the ULiège platform allowed the team to examine the locus coeruleus in greater detail.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Typically, the final revision shows a somewhat higher level of jobs than the preliminary estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scheduled for around 10 a.m. is the Labor Department’s preliminary estimate of payrolls revisions through March 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Today we have preliminary designs for ships to take people to the stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
It’s time to start reaching peak form when the preliminaries will take place on Thursday at Birmingham High in preparation for next Thursday’s finals at the same venue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
As the preliminaries drew to a close, Mike’s friends gradually started coming upstairs to join him.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
On August it they sat in the Griinau grandstands and watched the preliminaries in all the rowing events except their own eight-oared contest, scheduled for the following day.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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