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streak

[streek] / strik /




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Tech stocks are looking to break a three-session losing streak as investors turn their attention from earnings to the U.S. midterm elections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

England have endured fluctuating form over the past two years, with a 12-Test winning streak ended by Scotland in February and followed by five successive defeats.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Their effort helped the Rams take a 35-21 victory that ended a two-game losing streak and kept alive hope for a team that started the season as the Super Bowl favorite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

That streak finally broke on Thursday following an earnings report that showed a deceleration in the company’s core search business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

“He was a good man. And I let him—” More tears streak down, and she shakes her head.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

And amid the doomsaying, streaks of contrarian optimism are starting to emerge.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

By the end, I was dragging pieces of focaccia through the last orange streaks left in the pan.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

As these tiny particles enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed, they heat up and produce the streaks of light we see as meteors.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

At age 82, Steinem looked as she had always looked, only older: tinted aviator glasses, leather jacket, long hair parted down the middle with two lightened streaks at the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

So I just sat there in the darkness with Wishbone twitching in his sleep beside me and said, “I do like those blue streaks in your hair.”

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

A photo Neha shared on Instagram showed their face streaked with ink stains.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Every visitor must exit through the Blood Room, a gruesomely immersive space whose walls are streaked, smeared, splattered and practically dripping with the red stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sweaty, exhausted and streaked in grass stains, the families gathered in the common room for the deciding match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A meteor streaked across the New York City area in broad daylight on July 16, 2024, producing a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

The refrigerator door was gone, its interior stained and streaked.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

The firm amassed about $50 billion from individuals from 2022 to 2025, streaking past jealous competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

And he delivered sensationally, streaking away from the field in the backstroke and breaststroke legs before closing it out in the freestyle.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Every night around the world, thousands of automated sky cameras watch for flashes of light streaking across the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Palestinians in east Jerusalem regularly film rockets streaking through the sky from their rooftops.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

Tristas comes for me, tears streaking his mask.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir


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