contain
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Yet these enormous waste streams also contain valuable materials, including silica, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The company said that each cable can contain anywhere from 96 to 1,728 fibers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Officers struggled to contain crowds of people jostling to secure a place at the site after weeks of living on the beaches.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
U.S. stocks recouped some of their recent losses as oil prices stabilized and confidence grew in the Federal Reserve’s ability to contain inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
When she came into the service area, I couldn’t contain myself.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Nature, however, contains many ecosystems that are both highly diverse and persistent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The New York Times op-ed contract provides: “As a freelance contributor to The Times, you may not submit any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced by gen-A.I. tools.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It also contains cards from the game’s classic collection.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
In reliance on that agreement, the parents entrust the surrogate with their embryo, which contains their own genetic material.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
If it contains salt, it is possible that the salt is left over from ancient water.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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The researchers then set out to confirm that the enzyme contained a molybdenum metallocofactor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
But to do so overlooks the thrilling, genuinely thorny assertions contained in several of the season’s best films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
And even the go-for-broke performance of Mr. Ribisi, with its barely contained insanity, requires something to massage our sympathies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tamlin Bolton said each of the 1,100 pages of Lady Justice Thirlwall's findings contained "another opportunity where action could have been taken".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
He sat up, and saw that a tray was on his bedside table with some sort of meal contained under a silver dome.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The new findings raise the possibility that the droplets act as a storage reservoir for lipids containing BFAs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Those searches led it to two different public online repositories, containing credentials belonging to other companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
There are further restrictions around accessing material containing personal information, that is business-sensitive, or has not yet been appraised, according to the congregation's access policy.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Under a piece of wood by the stump was a yellow sack containing a white Spencer’s shopping bag.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The CIA determined that Blake had passed over 4,000 documents to the Soviets, many of them containing highly classified information about British and American spies.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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