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This has enabled Italian brand Regina, for example, to switch from plastic to paper packaging for its hygiene products like toilet roll, kitchen paper and napkins.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Journal’s Bertrand Benoit reports from Berlin that in otherwise vibrant business districts, on Sundays “iron curtains roll shut, turning city centers into eerie, echoey deserts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
And Nelson expects Mama’s, under the direction of CEO Adam Michaels, to continue to be “stingy” in what it pays to roll up competitors.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"When you put music on for him he won't stop singing -- bachata, rock 'n' roll, anything noisy."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
And if you see a puff adder in the road, it’ll roll over and play dead.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Tennis now rolls toward hard courts and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
At this point, I was barely engaging and focused on eating my hand rolls, and I couldn’t wait to get home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
One measure of the U.K.’s decline is its soaring welfare rolls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
A small white car trundles into view, rolls across the floor, and bumps into a barrier set against the wall.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The office lady rolls toward the counter in her squeaky chair.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
They said a "lack of regulation means that a technology without any kind of robust independent evidence base can just be rolled out" widely.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Carney has scrapped a digital-services tax affecting U.S. tech companies, rolled back retaliatory levies and halted streaming regulations opposed by American companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The park service planned to use visitor feedback and research to guide how reservations would be rolled out in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The social media rule is expected to be rolled out in two stages, the first blocking under-15s from creating new accounts from September 1.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Out in the middle of the river, a big old catfish rolled and boiled the water to a white foam.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
A stock’s forward price/earnings ratio is its price divided by the rolling consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimate among analysts working for brokerage and research firms.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dennis Dahmer, who is 73, similarly understands the stakes of what the court has done by rolling back key protections the VRA established.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Another grower near Mid-Illovo, a region of rolling hills south of Durban, said most cane cutters in his area came from Lesotho, the tiny kingdom encircled by South Africa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Martínez-Olguín on Thursday extended the restraining order for another 14 days — until Aug. 17 — in recognition that more time was needed for the case to get rolling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
With its bell ringing and black smoke rolling, the engine came around the bend.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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