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New Conagra CEO John Brase is planning a turnaround strategy to invest in brands, simplify operations and restore profit margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The family started a GoFundMe to raise funds to restore the business and keep themselves afloat in the meantime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In both of last week's blackouts, it took more than 24 hours to restore power across the island of 9.6 million people, a process made slower and more complex by fuel shortages.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We will now restore it by reintroducing hay cuts and conservation grazing livestock will be brought on site to help manage it."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
By that time I’m so sick and tired of their remarks that I race to the bathroom and restore my hair to its normal mass of curls.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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“She will not accept a recovery process that restores the status quo. She is committed to ensuring this community is safer moving forward than it was before the fire began.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Whether this shift restores trust in polling or further erodes it will depend less on the technology itself than on how it is used, explained and regulated.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
The UK's foreign minister Yvette Cooper urged a "swift resolution to this conflict that restores regional stability".
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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In the capital Havana, power outages totalled more than 30 hours at a time, while in the outlying provinces, it was several days before electricity was restored.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine builds this new “Little House” on a foundation of restored and reconsidered history.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Modern networks are more resilient in disasters, an AT&T spokesman said, because they can be restored faster and are less vulnerable to damage and copper theft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
They replaced some of the “chintzy” decor with a more monochrome color scheme, put up Stewart’s extensive collection of photographs and restored the neglected 5.5-acre garden, keeping to Lord Snowdon’s original plans, Walsh said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Bobby saved the game with his fighting spirit, and his creative capacity was restored.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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"We share a resolute commitment to restoring price stability," he said in prepared comments.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Long-shot goals, like restoring auto worker pensions, could be in play in the next round of talks in 2028, said Art Wheaton, a labor expert at Cornell University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He said the board should recommend restoring standardized testing for fall 2027 admissions and study its effects over four years, using methods UC used when it last evaluated testing in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
An experimental drug developed at Michigan Medicine has shown the ability to reverse severe fatty liver disease in animal studies by restoring gut health.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe’s restoring touch was on my shoulder.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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