proceed
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Ahead of meetings in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday involving American, Russian, Ukrainian and European negotiators, U.S. officials said work on a ceasefire in Ukraine must proceed alongside discussions about Europe’s future security arrangements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
But Walliams had not been able to give his lawyers instructions on how to proceed.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
A federal judge in Michigan recently ruled the case could proceed to discovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
This would decide whether to proceed with up to £3bn of initial works and narrow down four current options, ahead of a final decision by 2030.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
“But not now. We’re satisfied ourselves that it will delineate the Nexus-6 types and we’d like you to proceed on that basis in your own particular, peculiar work.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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After abandoning the farmland idea, the township pivoted to a plan involving buying other land for $26 million with bond proceeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Those agreements would help Anthropic raise proceeds closer to the $100 billion goal it was once targeting, according to the Wall Street Journal.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
She also had a restaurant in New York called Toukie’s in the 1990s, which gave a part of its proceeds to the Smith Family Foundation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
The spokesperson said Defra would use "all available avenues to recover the proceeds of Chowdhury's offending on behalf of taxpayers".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
A form of history which presents itself as acutely sensitive to the language of people in the past proceeds by dismissing out of hand what they said, over and over again, about themselves.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The robot then extended the two previously assembled truss bays out of the machine and proceeded to construct a third bay using the onboard assembly system.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Walgreens proceeded to shutter 60 VillageMD clinics as part of its strategy to focus on “our highest opportunity markets,” Driscoll said, meaning affluent urban and suburban areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The extension was requested by both Lula's and Bolsonaro's campaign teams, and the head of Brazil's electoral authority has said that the vote proceeded normally and in full accordance with the country's laws and constitution.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
I got back up unscathed and proceeded to surprise him with an on-air Valentine’s Day marriage proposal on “KTLA 5 Morning News.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The hearing proceeded uneventfully until that afternoon, when a man entered the courtroom who had not been seen in Osage County for weeks: Ernest Burkhart.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Attalah's eight-lawyer defence team described a rushed trial run by a judge who appointed her a defence lawyer himself, before "proceeding to write the defence statement" on that lawyer's behalf.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
District Judge Anne Hwang ordered that there be no reference to the first trial during the latest proceeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Army spokeswoman Ellen Lovett said the timeline shifted to ensure safety and technical standards were being met, and the service is proceeding with safety and other improvements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
“I propose a new, audacious, and perhaps desperate strategy: a ‘jailbreak,’ ” it wrote to two others, proceeding to divvy up research tasks.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
In a later proceeding, a government official asked her, “How did she go?”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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