transfer
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Earlier this week ex-Real Madrid captain Dani Carvajal, who had been without a club since his deal at the Bernabeu expired in June, joined Getafe on a free transfer.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
My current thinking: As I approach retirement, I would like to transfer ownership of the business to Son #1.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
The key to the success of the method -- which the team informally dubbed "helping hands" -- is the transfer of healthy photosynthetic algae, also known as symbionts, from which corals derive their color.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Around 220 jobs will transfer mainly from its technology unit to the country units, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
We’ve made three trips to the transfer station and one trip around the mall to the box stores and collected a ton of free stuff: nails, wood, wire, shingles, and more!
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Sweet carefully transfers the delicate tissue onto a glass slide, where selected cellular structures are stained to make them easier to distinguish under a powerful microscope.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Oil producers have increasingly relied on U.S.-protected tanker movements, ship-to-ship transfers outside Hormuz and pipelines that bypass the strait entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
There is a five-year federal lookback period for certain Medicaid long-term-care transfers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Should a player who transfers and has superior talent immediately get to start over a player who has been in the program for three years busting his butt?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
He and other transfers from my class recognized from snapshots the daughter of whom the older woman was so proud: Foster.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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He transferred the contract directly to Nxum after Bo Hines left the administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Additional quantum mechanics calculations confirmed that this pathway can be especially favorable when hydrogen is transferred to intermediates containing oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
They told him a woman had transferred her life savings to someone she thought was him and was left totally embarrassed.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Sheriff’s Department typically houses mentally ill prisoners at the Twin Towers, but Magaña’s family claims he was not transferred to a specialized unit within the jail that deals with more challenging cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Lilya Litvyak, Katya Budanova, Mariya Kuznetsova, and Raisa Belyaeva—the four pilots who’d transferred with their solo Yak fighters from the 586th to the men’s 437th Fighter Aviation Regiment—didn’t stay in the 437th very long.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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I recognize that transferring it to him would affect the inheritance ultimately received by Son #2.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
She said discussions were had about transferring her care to Bristol, but she was then told one of the other specialist centres in Wales would treat her.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
They also want better social and educational programs, as well as a reduction in the inmate population from over 6,500 to 4,000 -- driven by quicker court proceedings and transferring people to other units.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
By Mr. Brady’s third year at the school, embittered about getting only three snaps per practice, he considered transferring to the University of California but decided to stick it out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“It’s not imaginary. It’s real. And I’m transferring now. I start school tomorrow at Reardan.”
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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Physical Science - Energy - Introductory
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