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He told the BBC he had set up the event companies C-Side Sounds and Strictly Grooves to "push music locally" in these spaces.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The reading was the highest in five months and saw investors push up bets on a second-successive rate hike this month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
About 15% of Americans followed an intermittent-fasting diet last year, thanks in part to a push from biohackers and health influencers confidently touting it as the key to effortless weight loss.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Investors also weighed comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, who declined to endorse or push back on colleagues’ recent signals that officials are in no rush to raise interest rates this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
I push stakes into the dirt, tying a red ribbon around each stake.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Although Antarctica's geography allows winter sea ice to expand over enormous distances, it also pushes the ice into warmer latitudes, where melting becomes more likely during summer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Brands are framing the government cashback as fuel for major pushes:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Plus, “it shows SpaceX will pay for terrestrial spectrum, which supports our view that its presence pushes up clearing prices at coming auctions whether or not it wins.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
That shift pushes up the rates Washington pays to borrow, he explained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
I ask myself how I’d feel if it was Mimi standing in front of me, scared and alone – and that is what pushes me to save them.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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At the same time escalating tensions in the Middle East, with ongoing strikes between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, have pushed oil prices higher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Huang pushed back on financial concerns around U.S. cloud provider CoreWeave, causing its stock to rebound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
However, Indian media have reported cases in West Bengal in which people excluded from voter rolls were later detained and, in some instances, pushed across the border into Bangladesh.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
But she said that she has still pushed for it, and that affordable housing construction in her district has grown by sixteen times under her leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pearl pushed her toward Tansy and resumed her seat.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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"This distinction crowns more than 10 years of research, testing and commitment to pushing the boundaries of electric and solar-powered flight," SolarStratos said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Scientists have long recognized this imbalance as a contributor to muscle deterioration, but the mechanism responsible for pushing the system out of balance remained unclear.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Lastly, Kirsche points to technology weakness as one of the primary forces pushing Treasury yields lower.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Two outside UBS shareholders, Cevian Capital and Artisan Partners, are pushing for a move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
I flattened it out as best I could, pushing it down, tugging the sweater around my waist, but there was no real concealing it beneath the thin cotton dress.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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