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He was sentenced to 18 months, suspended for three years.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Evercore’s Kutgun Maral still called the latest development “incrementally negative” for the three major U.S. wireless companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
So let’s say you’ve backed a company, and there’s three things they want to do in the future, but they haven’t accomplished them yet, or they’re very small in the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
One Sunday, I scheduled three app meetups there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
For one crazy moment, I consider telling all three of them what I saw.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Over those two decades, Americans became accustomed to rates in the threes and fours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The par threes are also likely to generate plenty of drama, especially the 15th where matches will reach a crucial stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Good things do not always come in threes, and Lord's did not follow Wembley and Twickenham in hosting landmark moments of recent English sporting history.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“I think you’re not going to be perfect; you’re going to have turnovers. Just trying to eliminate the live-ball turnovers where they get easy fast-break layups or threes or dunks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
All those numbers, the fours and the threes and all that, yeah, add a "hundred" on the end, and then add a "meters" on the end of that.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
