relay
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Gonzalez restarted his device and, until it booted up again, relied on nearby troops to relay his messages up the chain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Three decades ago, the relay legs were reversed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
In other cases, he said, Navatek’s lobbyists would relay a request from an intermediary for a specific dollar amount.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
That energy is transferred to ytterbium ions, which serve as a relay, and then passed to erbium ions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Noodles took the pink yarn and the needles like taking a baton in a relay race, and started up the steps, two at a time.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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It was the 34-year-old's third medal of the 2026 Games, having won silver in the mixed 4x100 medley and bronze in the men's 4x100 freestyle relays.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Power systems, communications relays and resource extraction should take priority over manned missions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"We found that activating this pathway excites the part of the spinal cord that relays touch and pain to the brain, causing touch to now be perceived as pain as well," said Ball.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
Calabasas has won two of three head-to-head relays with Rosary this spring, having clocked 44.95 to take the teams’ first encounter at the Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
"Now, watch and learn," Whit said, and started demonstrating the blind handoff, a technique that usually only sprinters do during relays because of the momentum of the incoming runner.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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"We think it paid for a huge renovation project here at that time," says the Very Reverend Philip Hesketh, Dean of Rochester, pointing out the quire paving that was relaid.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The unpaid work team at the Nene Valley Railway Museum relaid a track bed at the site.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
The field has been belatedly relaid because there were concerts staged at the stadium last weekend.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
My cousins and I hope there will be a time when the debris is cleared away, roads relaid and bridges rebuilt so that we might visit the hills where our grandmother raised our fathers.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017
If the space thus left is filled up with other common soil, the turf can be relaid, and no harm is done to the meadow.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
According to Anthropic's account, as relayed by police, the model was running a test that involved interacting with randomly selected websites when it reached the site and filed false information about an unsolved murder.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Oimakhmadov then relayed the funds on to other IRGC-connected wallets, the report said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He said he used Google's Gemini AI tool to summarise recent medical journal articles relevant to his mum's condition and symptoms, and then relayed it to the neurology consultant.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In an interview with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, Gundlach relayed the story of a 100-year-old silver maple at his house in Buffalo, N.Y., that lost a giant limb, nearly hitting the chimney.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Chennault relayed the messages to Bui Diem, South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States, and he cabled the notes to Thieu in Saigon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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"In the circumstances, the prosecution suggest the communication that took place is evidence they were all involved in relaying information to and from Mr Baker whilst he was in custody," Tully said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Martin, Tennessee, is a small, out-of-the-way town that is ultimately best explained to strangers by relaying its travel time from Memphis.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
People in towns and villages around Madrid have been relaying their experiences of escaping the fires, some with just the clothes they were wearing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
“I’ll get my crew to blow the whistle to honor the memory of your friend,” he said, before relaying instructions on his radio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Because of the wheezing, it’s hard to tell if Mr. Black is all that impressed by the information he’s relaying.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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