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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
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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
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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
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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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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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