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Ninety percent of those particles were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics, which are small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and be absorbed into human cells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

If you can no longer work, you may qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance, which pays your full retirement age benefit without reductions that come from claiming early.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Scientists use this threshold to determine which areas qualify as ice-covered when calculating the total "sea ice extent."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

She started paying privately for GLP-1 medication two years ago after her BMA rose to over 30 - within the range to qualify for NHS use.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Were it not for the anxiety, an Election Day might qualify as a kind of mini-vacation, a surreal pause between everything that's happened and whatever lies ahead.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

For one, it was a blast of cold coffee to the face to realize that what qualifies as a career-derailing flop in 2006 meets or beats the quality of most made-for-Netflix features.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

The treaty does not specify the geographical criteria of a European state, but it's hard to imagine Canada qualifies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Two spouses who each own 3% of the business are treated as 6% owners, and neither one qualifies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

He has estimated he will owe around £50,000 in student loans by the time he finishes his course and qualifies as a teacher.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

I guess I could stick with the line about the sandwich, but it hardly qualifies as newsworthy.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

To receive reimbursements from an HSA, users must have proof of qualified medical expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“If you ask Hospital A, Hospital B, or any federally qualified health center how they measure the accuracy of interpretation, they’ll all give you the same answer: We let the vendor tell us,” Patel said.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

The north Londoners did benefit in the 2013-14 season, as they only qualified for Europe because City beat Sunderland in the final of the EFL Cup.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

To ensure compliance, Sykes ordered ICE to provide access to “two qualified, independent, third-party monitors for the duration of this litigation or until terminated by court order,” according to the court order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

I mean he says things like that, and yet he thinks he’s perfectly qualified to give me a lot of advice and stuff!

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Beginning Jan. 1, it’s all about Premier qualifying points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The same thresholds apply to heads of household and qualifying surviving spouses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Another period is known as the special enrollment period, which must include a qualifying event.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The men's team - Truman, Ed Lowe and Harry Ledingham-Horn - finished fifth in the qualifying stage but were beaten by fourth-placed Australia in the opening round of head-to-head races.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

If she was a really practiced reader, she thought, each of those ideas would be surrounded by a phalanx of qualifying detail, but there it was: that was all she had to go on.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman