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The mayor of the small Central Valley farm town of Kerman pulled up to a bakery, her cellphone camera recording, and confronted federal immigration agents conducting an early-morning operation in which multiple people were detained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Skerritt also had guest roles on the small screen in The West Wing, Madam Secretary, Law & Order: SVU and Huff.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
It is popular with government websites and small businesses, and it can be found in WordPress and in major websites such as Wikipedia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, Zuckerberg wasn’t a fan of the proposal, which he believed would create a relatively small and illiquid pool of nonvoting stock.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Tuscarora rez was small, according to a lot of people.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Among the benefits, he liked that they could be bought in smaller quantities than buying direct, which can be helpful to individual investors, and that the management fees are minimal, usually around 10 basis points.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hemoglobin is much smaller and lies near the lower size limit of proteins that conventional cryo-EM instruments can reliably analyze.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
A few other accounts in his name remain on Instagram, though with much smaller followings - and it's not clear who runs them.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
All 11 economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected a smaller rate increase of 25 basis points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
She ducked inside for the smaller spade with the broken handle, calling over her shoulder, “It’s all right, Patcheen. Go back to sleep.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Indeed, it would be the smallest budget gap among members of the Group of Seven advanced economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Activities where the smallest increment of speed would make a difference,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Even the smallest improvements in optical precision could help Roman capture clearer images during its sweeping surveys of the cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Invictibellatrix, meaning "unconquered female warrior", is one of the smallest and earliest of the group to be found, living in the Early Cretaceous period about 120 million years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
I reached for the last child, the smallest of them, a boy who can’t have been older than four or five.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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