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A judge on Friday dismissed one of the cases, which McHugh expects will resume the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
DCOR, which owns and operates 20 of the 27 remaining offshore oil platforms in California, now wants to resume fracking off Platform Gilda, about nine miles off the Ventura coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
AI startup Manus said Tuesday it would resume "operating as an independent company," months after Beijing blocked Meta's multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
For anyone keeping score, that leaves Trump’s publicly stated resume including businessman, president, golf-course owner — and, apparently, one of the world’s foremost grass experts.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
The board would remain as it was, waiting for us to resume.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Reading the résumé she prepared after reaching New York, he sees “two Hannah Arendts” taking shape in Paris: the scholar and the woman devoted to Jewish action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
At a recent job fair, a mother approached Alba with her daughter’s résumé, explaining that she wanted to work as a nurse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
After 30 years of innovation in the L.A. music scene, Cut Chemist’s résumé of achievements is too long to list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
And yet, as a self-described isolationist, said résumé might not exist if he were left to his own devices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
My makeup was minimal, and I carried a black leather briefcase with copies of my résumé.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
When the cooking resumes, several salmon cakes have already been shaped and set aside.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tshuma's case resumes on 27 August; he is yet to plead.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
May 27: Boeing resumes production of the 737 MAX at low volumes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Prices for gasoline, diesel and many petrochemicals have risen even more sharply and aren’t expected to ease until normal tanker traffic through the strait resumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
A month ago, I mailed out fifteen resumes to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Those conditions echo the terms of a so-called memorandum of understanding which was reached in June and collapsed as fighting resumed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a brief pause in June and July, U.S. stocks have resumed their pattern of jumping from record high to record high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
After a period of relative calm in the Black Sea, over the course of this summer Kyiv and Moscow resumed striking one another's ports and shipping.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
They touched $90 early in the day as hopes for a Strait of Hormuz deal faded, then fell back after signs of de-escalation, and finally jumped up to near intraday highs as U.S. attacks resumed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
By early June the subprime mortgage bond market had resumed what would become an uninterrupted decline, and the FrontPoint positions began to move—first by thousands and then by millions of dollars a day.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The deal quickly fell through, as did diplomatic talks, with tit-for-tat attacks resuming just days after the MoU was signed.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The agreement was short-lived, however, with U.S. and Iranian attacks resuming this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Now the plant is resuming operations, specialists and workers are being recruited. We are pinning our hopes on this plant, that people will come and the village will continue to live."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Proximity to Iran as hostilities were resuming was also a factor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Madame,” said I, ”’twas far from our intention to intrude upon the grief of any; but believing the house unoccupied, we wished to take shelter here for a few hours before resuming our journey.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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