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The landscape looked very different before Perea arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The sudden supply crunch among oil supertankers—known as very large crude carriers, or VLCCs—has boosted the cost of hauling oil through the strait to the highest on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We faced an opponent with incredible transitions and extraordinary players who obviously play for their team and do so very well. We controlled almost all the transitions they could have had."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Expanding this to dairy cows going to slaughter and joining them with Australian semen will provide a very large and quick increase in the American herd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The way I heard it, I owe my very existence to Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or perhaps those who have never known a mother's love cling to the veriest shred and tatter of it, if it fall in their way.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
