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[sweep] / swip /






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Hurricane Simon was the latest in a series of powerful tropical cyclones to sweep across the Eastern Pacific during the 2026 hurricane season.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dodgers are one loss from an abrupt ending to their season, and from a National League Championship Series sweep by the Milwaukee Brewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The film’s narrative sweep encompasses three protagonists in three separate periods: Carlos in 1932, Sebastián in 1937 and Alberto in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Ohsung Kwon, chief equity strategist at Wells Fargo Securities, also believes a Democratic sweep would be bad for the AI trade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Around midnight, after celebrating the defeat of Mr. Lemoncello with Charles and Marjory over a few bottles of root beer, Andrew Peckleman still needed to sweep up around the motel.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

After weeks of unusually warm weather, autumn is finally set to make its presence felt on Tuesday as cooler air sweeps across the UK from the north-west.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

So far, 70 sweeps have yielded 694 skimmers, the agency said, preventing an estimated $720 million in fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

A statuesque figure of death, trailing black fabric, sweeps up the casualties of war with the efficiency of a human vacuum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

One especially important clue came from signs of so-called 'genome-wide selective sweeps.'

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Leaving his Whitehall office one Monday evening, he swept up a pile of forms to fill in to make his secondment official.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

A stock rout swept up companies from CoreWeave to Alphabet while Treasury yields tumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Bad news: The Dodgers were swept by the Brewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He recalled how an avalanche of slurry swept through the school just minutes after lessons began.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

One by one, Nine swept them back into satchels, then cinched them up and swung them into the tree hollow behind him, where they landed with a soft thud.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Messier 33 and NGC 3938 are viewed almost directly from above, allowing astronomers to examine their sweeping arms and identify regions containing energetic pairs of stars and the aftermath of stellar explosions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

While the mansion offers an extraordinary collection of amenities and sweeping views, the protected acreage surrounding the property represents a lasting part of Love’s connection to the landscape.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

According to Teymouri, authorities have video footage of Xuan walking through a room of the kids sleeping in rows and sweeping a flashlight, “like a warden.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

There he would execute his first truly individual paintings, a set of cityscapes remarkable for their sweeping breadth and nervy suppression of detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Consequently, there was a sweeping investigation taking place of her activities, past and present, spearheaded by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady


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