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[tahy] / taɪ /








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The railroad and telegraph networks that would tie the country together were still decades away, making it impossible for Lafayette to provide a precise travel itinerary.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The second clip is from Bayern's Champions League tie against Club Brugge.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Banks, dressed in a blue suit and tie, swiveled back and forth watching his lawyer and Hester, like watching a tennis match.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

John Overdeck, clad in a navy-blue suit, light blue shirt and no tie, has been questioned on the witness stand this week by his estranged wife’s attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The archaeologists instructed the divers to dig tunnels under the boulders and to tie strong ropes around them several times.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

“They severed ties with us. We completely understand that position and this is a situation no one wants to be in,” Kendrick said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Hugging Face has nonetheless kept strong ties to France.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

The Bank of Canada is widely expected to keep its main interest rate unchanged on Wednesday as policymakers assess the fallout from a stark deterioration in Ottawa-Washington trade ties.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Black left Apollo Global Management, a company he co-founded, in 2021 - saying at the time that "relentless public attention and media scrutiny" of his ties with Epstein had taken "a toll" on his health.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

St. Catherine’s has gray blazers, navy blue pants, white shirts, and blue ties, and it was hot in our uniforms.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Right on cue, at the end of May, fund managers launched the country’s first leveraged ETFs tied to single stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

On his return at Anfield he covered 11.4km, the third highest of the team, and was tied first with 16 sprints - while his expected goals of 0.79 also topped Forest's stats.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

But Moerdler said he and his team “understand why it is difficult to break the number out” unless Microsoft were to only capture Azure revenue opportunity tied to graphics processing units.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The result shows that a Hall response tied to magnetization can occur in more than one direction.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

He’d tied a pink ribbon round the handlebars, and he made a big fuss of it being a present for me.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Owning meant tying up capital in equipment that lost value while you learned how to use it.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

And this is why following Denmark's lead by making meters mandatory could have an effect that goes beyond tying consumers' actual water usage to their bills.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Despite the companies’ strengthening relationship, Leaman would caution against tying Nvidia’s growth forecast too closely to a single customer.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

El Niño is an awe-inspiringly complicated network of relationships across air and ocean, tying snowfall in Chile with drought in Papua New Guinea and connecting floods in Texas with Antarctic sea ice.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone




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