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Confirmed traffic through the strait fell by more than half over the weekend, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler, back to levels seen before the preliminary peace deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The researchers emphasize that these results are preliminary and have not yet been confirmed in people.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
At a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Department detectives displayed photographs of the Impala sitting in traffic around 4 p.m. on Sept. 13, 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
In its preliminary findings, the European Commission said features such as infinite scroll, autoplaying videos and personalised recommendations could encourage "compulsive use", particularly among children and teens.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Donovan considered, “Not much, I think. If Dave is like the preliminary model we saw back at the factory, there’s a special co-ordinating circuit that would be the only section involved.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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
He swam the lead leg in the preliminaries, helping the team set an Olympic record that paved the way for a world-record win in the final.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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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