streak
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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
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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
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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
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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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