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Infantino had summoned a select few members of the Fifa management board to discuss his plan to sell off 21% of the commercial and ticketing business to a private equity firm.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
For the select list of comedians who have sold out the place, filling the arena is considered a pinnacle of achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We think the declining affordability of standalone PDPs could sway seniors to select MA coverage and further increase MA penetration.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The overall demand environment remains strong, though the company noted “a modest, near-term impact on bookings for select itineraries, primarily due to prolonged geopolitical activity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Once loaded, the Penny Doubled Challenge required a player name, and then the user needed to select their rules.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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Gruel selects seafood, one of what he calls the country’s “bounty items,” and announces that they will make salmon cakes.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Should Airbus opt for this type of engine while Boeing selects a more conventional architecture, CFM believes it can cater for both giants of the air.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Pinterest showed off a new tool that automatically selects the ad most likely to perform best, while TikTok played matchmaker for brands and creators and debuted tools to generate ads on the fly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The show — loosely based on the game Mafia — selects celebrities to be faithfuls and traitors, and the faithful must attempt to discover the traitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
He picks over his pile again, selects his next nibble.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Kurdish lawmaker Fasla Yousef, 56, was selected by an electoral body in the northeast province of Hasakeh.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The original and the copy were both crafted by an artist from Azerbaijan named Selhab Mammadov, who was selected without a public process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The 23-player squad, selected from Afghan players now living abroad, has travelled to New Zealand for a training camp and to play two unofficial friendly games against the Cook Islands.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Fill out the form below by Aug. 13 and you may be selected to be included in a future story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It would be a grueling task, so they selected workers who they thought were strong enough to complete it successfully and divided them into teams of three.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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In these fields, selecting the correct enantiomer can be essential because two mirror-image versions of the same molecule may have very different biological or medical effects.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
“More filmmakers than ever are selecting Imax,” Gelfond said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to Oseman, Locke and Connor were also heavily involved in selecting a new intimacy coordinator, Robbie Taylor Hunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Once studios couldn’t count on a second bump of revenue beyond the box office, they began selecting safer films based on pre-existing properties that were guaranteed to get people into movie theaters.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
I ordered fried chicken and chocolate pudding and pecan pie, and no one said a word about me not selecting a single vegetable.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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