V
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Pointing out the perfect V formation, Ferguson would tell his players that each bird would take its turn to lead from the front as they embarked on a 4,000-mile migration in the winter.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
If the wind has been steady, that outline often forms a "V" shape.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
High up on the Bolivian Altiplano, Potosí was once a glorious “imperial city,” deemed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to be the “Treasure of the World.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And he asked King Charles V of Spain for some priests to do the job.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Contemporaries regarded this merciless battle as “a second Agincourt,” akin to Henry V’s victory, against the odds, in 1415.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Their daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, are currently non-working royals, and will retain their titles as princesses, in line with King George V's Letters Patent of 1917.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
I remember sitting on Mrs. V’s porch that very first time.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
The ceremony’s hosts, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, are also up for two awards for their show Rob and Romesh Vs.
From BBC ● May 12, 2024
The announcement comes after Mr Bates Vs the Post Office drew in more than 10 million viewers and dominated the headlines last month.
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
The conditional probability that someone is an American citizen, given that he or she speaks English, is, let’s assume, about Vs.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
I once hypnotized a man and made him read all of his a's as w's, his u's as v's, and his b's as x's.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by A. Alpheus
"Oh, I don't take much count about m's or v's," said Kink.
From The Slowcoach by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The art of subtle suggestion could hardly go further than in this line, where the alliterating v's, the mute e's, and the placing of the long syllables combine so wonderfully to produce the required effect.
From Books and Characters French and English by Giles Lytton Strachey
They “ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,” he concluded in Obergefell vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 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
Don’t miss: Robinhood’s new $695 Platinum card vs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
US actress Kaylee Hottle, who starred in the Godzilla vs Kong movie series, has died in a car crash at age 18.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Such a match evoked the drama of some of history’s great rivalries—clashes such as Mozart vs.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
