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The man, whose identity has not been made public, had lived in DR Congo for seven years and had travelled across three of its provinces on business.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Tuesday, when seven field teams were deployed to search an area “encompassing almost every aspect of Mt. Morgan, top to bottom,” the search team wrote in an online post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
El Nino, which occurs approximately every two to seven years, raises surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean and causes global changes in winds and rainfall.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note ticked up 0.011 percentage point to 5.243%, closing within seven basis points of a multidecade high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the seven decades since the American Revolution, these rolling hills had produced social revolutions by the dozens.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The Carson Zone Pavilion is an open-air setting near the archery, track cycling, hockey, rugby sevens and tennis venues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
As well as being a Rugby World Cup winner in 2021, Tui has Olympic gold and silver medals from the sevens game.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Irish Rugby Football Union confirmed 35 centralised contracts for their sevens and XVs stars, with the hope of maintaining their upward trajectory.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Thierry Henry was equal parts elegant and clinical, effortlessly eating up turf, striding through defences like a sixth-former schooling year sevens, scoring worldies and va va vindicating his spot here.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
We didn’t want to skew the graph with new data, and so didn’t mention that Desdemona was actually seventy-one, not ninety-one, and that she always confused sevens with nines.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
