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My wife, a proud Austrian, felt it too and asked what it would be like not to witness this but to feel it—to stand in a section, for your own country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To compound matters, the wheelchair accessible allocation was on the opposite side of the ground to the away section, leaving Jones isolated.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The new tariffs won’t stack on top of existing duties on steel and aluminum, which were imposed under a different section of U.S. trade law.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Jon Omer, 58, recently teamed up with the owners of a fulfillment center in Indiana to bring courts to a 20,000-square-foot section of their building, which still operates as a warehouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
He picked up the front left section of hair and started braiding.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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That means the researchers found roughly 19,000 locations where sections of DNA differed because they had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
A drone found the wreckage - which had broken into two sections - during its first pass of the search area on 2 June.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Tesla on Tuesday announced that it would offer robotaxi services in Tampa and Orlando, after expanding to Miami earlier in July, although its service is for now limited to small sections of those new cities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some sections are written without reference to what came earlier, so explanations are repeated and familiar individuals are introduced as if the reader has never heard of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
It let me listen to myself, so I could correct mess-ups and smooth out the hard sections.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia before he fatally attacked Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in June 2023, was previously sectioned by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The house was purchased for $1 from the developer, sectioned and transported on flatbed trucks to Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
If you want frozen garlic — already sectioned and ready-to-use — Trader Joe’s carries the Dorot brand of frozen crushed garlic cubes.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
A small, makeshift rink sectioned off by barricades was stationed in the corner, and the glam bar was closed down by the second day of the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
It didn't take long to find the right container—it was still sectioned off with police tape.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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The speech is expected to include a draft law which will reportedly aim to improve care for people with learning difficulties, and change rules on sectioning people.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
Although better sectioning is possible by using a higher illumination numerical aperture, this creates a shorter depth of focus that reduces the system's usable field of view.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
“It is also equipped with manipulating arms which could be used to extricate the sub, such as by sectioning cables or things that would be blocking it at the bottom.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Johnson began by teaching the kids some basic techniques, like parting and sectioning hair, and by introducing them to the tools of the trade.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Ella removed her scarf and a perfect replica of her mother's beautiful brown hands darted straight to her thick hair, sectioning and combing through her zigzag curls.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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