rank
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"Culture and leisure consistently rank as the second most important reason for visiting the district in our on-street surveys."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Reserve balances in Florida rank significantly weaker than elsewhere in the country due to legacy state laws that allowed unit owners to vote annually to waive reserve funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Taele was a Marine who reached the rank of corporal while serving at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Newyddion S4C understands Edwards' attempt fell far short of winning the competition, with his poem placed in the third grouping of entries - a system used by the judging panel to rank entries.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
At first, battlefield commanders tended to dismiss shell shock as nothing more than rank cowardice.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Meanwhile, the introduction of the Worthiest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in “Captain America: The First Avenger” ranks #52 on a very long list.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
As Germany's Opel slashes its engineering ranks and partners with China's Leapmotor, anxiety is running high in Ruesselsheim, the city it has long dominated.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
For UnitedHealth, where Thompson was a widely liked, affable executive who had risen through the ranks to lead its insurance unit, the loss left colleagues mourning at the same time they felt under attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
A surfer and physical fitness buff, Brambles rose through the ranks quickly, eventually becoming a supervisor in the elite Organized Crime Intelligence Division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Many of the American soldiers had simply abandoned their cannons, broken ranks, and run at the first sign of a British charge.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
Many a leather-faced wartime ranker figured that it would be more profitable, in the long run, to become an enlisted man again when the shooting was over.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You wouldn't think though, to see him and me tappin' each other with the mitts, that he was a front ranker in the smart push.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Hedgerows and verges were at their rankest and thickest.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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McIlroy's struggles were obvious particularly in from tee to green where he ranked 62nd out of 68 players for strokes gained.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
That performance, bettered only by leading pair Adrianna Sulek-Schubert of Poland and Ireland's Kate O'Connor, followed a time of 14 seconds flat in the 100m hurdles which ranked 15th overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It has ranked second among the 102 funds for average three-year return and 13th for average five-year return.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
In Long Beach, ranked 10th in household income growth, Anduril announced a $1-billion expansion plan in January, set to open in mid-2027, bringing high-earning employees to the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
As I began to play against nationally ranked players at various tournaments and camps, I realized that the disparity between my potential and theirs was glaring.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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The company’s lighter flash models power AI Overviews and AI Mode, which allow search-engine users to perform complex queries in natural language — far surpassing the keyword matching and ranking techniques of previous generations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, subsequently demanded answers about both the outbreak and the circumstances surrounding that meeting.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Angels have a 4.53 earned-run average, ranking 24th among the 30 major league teams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
That faith has paid off, as Arraez is having the best defensive season of his career according to Outs Above Average, ranking second among all second basemen in baseball with 11.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The laundry workers earned 40 cents an hour, ranking them among the lowest paid of all war workers, but with few job options available to them, it felt like a windfall.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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