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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has taken a major step toward mapping the sky on a truly global scale with Data Release 20.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Local Spanish television station El Faro broadcast footage showing young people, including a 14-year-old girl, making the "V" sign for victory sign after crossing into the European nation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Visa V 0.93%increase; green up pointing triangle is cutting 2,600 jobs, or about 7% of its workforce, as it works to adapt to the rapidly changing payments industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
That would exceed the lift capability of NASA's legendary Saturn V rocket.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
As the nineteenth century progressed, though, the lure of the three governing triads, I, IV and V began to pall and the strength of the previously well-defined chords began to blur.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Surely someone will soon make the case that Operation Epic Fury is the greatest triumph of arms since Henry V’s longbowmen routed the superior French numbers at Agincourt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
The second half of the book gives the reader concrete steps to reclaim their joy using what you call the Five V’s: validation, venting, values, vitals and vision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Queen Mary - King Charles III's great-grandmother - was known to be a fan of all things small and decorative and the original idea came from her childhood friend, George V's cousin Princess Marie Louise.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
Grand Theft Auto VI will arrive more than a decade after Grand Theft Auto V’s 2013 release.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
When I got older, I went over to Mrs. V’s every afternoon after school.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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Moffat was working on the contaminated blood scandal series before Mr Bates Vs the Post Office was broadcast, but it has now been "fast-tracked" following that show's "monumental success", Deadline reported.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024
“Chocolate AP and chocolate the Vs, got the Willy Wonka factory / Burn a athlete like it’s calories, find another flame hot as me,” he raps on the track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The project’s nature-themed name is making it easier for the topic to gain traction on social media than other oil projects with more technical-sounding names, said Cassidy DiPaolo, spokesperson for People Vs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Nike would not say, but industry analyst Matt Powell believes it destroyed its supply of Air Zoom Vick Vs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
Since the dice are independent, your chances that a 4 will come up on all three dice are Ye x Vs x Vs — V21&; so, approximately l/216th of the time you’ll win $3.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Patrick’s breathing had become even more labored and Dr. Nadas said, “Welton, we go see the president” — his Hungarian accent turning the w’s into v’s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013
His th's slurred together, and his w’s started sounding like v’s.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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The two smaller nicks, or v’s, indicate the shape of a standard thread, and may be used as a guide for grinding the point of a thread-cutting tool.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
"Oh, I don't take much count about m's or v's," said Kink.
From The Slowcoach by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Bites her nails, cannot pronounce her h's, and misplaces her v's and w's.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828 by Various
Blake Wong, Norco, 6-2, 170, Sr.: Brigham Young commit caught 14 passes for 219 yards, three TDs vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
It depends on the respondent’s mood when asked and even the questions: “Are you happy?” vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
To Ilana Redstone, a sociologist who specializes in political polarization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sociology’s troubles gained traction through the 1971 Supreme Court decision, Griggs vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Don’t miss: Robinhood’s new $695 Platinum card vs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
I was glad to know this fact because being from New York City where everyone’s born knowing uptown is north but not a whole lot else, I didn’t know anything about NNE vs.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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