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Rates of fraud remained elevated for months after the February attack, people familiar with the matter said, though they didn’t again reach 80%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I reach into my rucksack and retrieve a letter from Karl's mother, Angela Bushby.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
One of these organisms is the deep-sea archaeon Methanocaldococcus infernus, which lives in volcanic marine environments where vent fluids can reach temperatures above the boiling point of water.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Re-Oak California needs donated acorns, volunteer planters and propagators, and money — especially if Crouch is to reach his dream goal of planting 20,000 trees a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
I reach up, hugging her neck, feeling her long, furry face against my cheek.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Once it reaches the surface, the liquid nitrogen could remain in liquid form long enough to travel downhill across the glacier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
But in a rare GQ profile ahead of his much-anticipated new film, “Digger,” Cruise’s zeal reaches heights even the intrepid actor might think twice about parachuting from.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
“As those losses move through businesses that support production and the broader County economy,” CVL asserted, “total employment exposure reaches approximately 10,360 job-years.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
As the move reaches the final third, Dalot shoots from distance.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
He sat back in his chair, smiling apologetically from across the vast reaches of his desk.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
To make sense of these claims, I reached out to Zeke Faux, the author of Number Go Up and a journalist who has been chronicling Bitcoin’s rise and fall and rise for years.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Within 24 to 48 hours, material from the exposed termites had reached previously untreated nestmates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
De Anda couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
She's also learned that she can often tell, simply by listening, whether a Russian missile or drone has been intercepted or has reached its target.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
I reached out to take her bag, but she held onto it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Their lifetime is so short that any significant delay would prevent them from reaching the surface before they decay.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Friday, stocks hitting new lows outnumbered those reaching new highs 189 to 34 on the NYSE, according to FactSet data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
And the UK Prime Minister has said that Britain must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050, the Guardian reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Amy’s pitch, Chief Executive Paul Schiefer said, is tasty, healthy meals that can assuage people’s guilt about reaching for something quick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
On reaching the river, Rowdy and I stopped to watch a mother duck, with about a dozen little babies, working around an old drift close to the bank.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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