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On the wall of a five-story building that collapsed after the earthquake, a rescuer marked a red "V" crossed by a horizontal line, indicating the end of the search for possible survivors.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

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

V, a member of pop sensation BTS, says he has been receiving treatment for hearing loss in one ear, an announcement that comes midway through the band's highly-anticipated world tour.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Visa V -0.04%decrease; down pointing triangle is acquiring BioCatch, a fraud-reduction platform, for $2.4 billion in cash.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The window opened inward, making a narrow V with the wall.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Bernd V's name had been brought to the attention of investigators in the early 1970s, according to Spiegel by a man who shared a prison cell with him.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 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

Grand Theft Auto VI will arrive more than a decade after Grand Theft Auto V’s 2013 release.

From Seattle Times Dec. 5, 2023

Attitude forgotten, Penny grabs a handful and promptly begins to scribble all over the coloring book, as well as Mrs. V’s table.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

I always say don’t do the five Vs all at once, because people who are intense like myself will want to do everything at once.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2025

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

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

We take the fraction of stars that have planets, fp, as roughly equal to Vs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

My p's and b's would wobble and bend till they looked like f's and v's, if I tried to halve a letter I quartered it.

From Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

The teacher tells her all the time not to talk so funny, not to get her t's and d's and her v's and w's mixed.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce

Also, not all heroes neatly fit into the Chosen vs.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Count Binface wins a quarter of the vote vs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

But that territorial dispute spread through the airwaves as part of a bigger national rivalry - East Coast vs West Coast rap.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

In writing the same-sex marriage case, Kennedy cited Warren’s opinion in the 1967 case of Loving vs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Past the sofa was a TV showing the very end of Kramer vs.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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