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The panel also said Smith's tone and language towards Burgess was "dismissive in nature", while Comotto was "antagonistic".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Changes to bank capital rules should cushion much of the impact for some banks, while dividend reinvestment plans could help preserve capital, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
On the other hand, the projection of American might into the affairs of another country, while hardly unprecedented, gave many experts pause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The panel found Smith "made no attempt to assess or understand" Burgess's vulnerability, while Comotto "showed no compassion".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Petite and Black, with hundreds of tiny braids cascading down her back, she walked with unexpectedly long strides, eating up the pavement while looking straight ahead, body framed by late-afternoon summer sunlight.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
During the pandemic, he whiled away lockdown by rising early and chronicling nature’s progress in more than 100 pictures on an iPad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Taking a Greyhound bus back to Palo Alto, Lesh whiled away a few years rooming with Constanten and working at the post office as he composed classical music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
The family said their "quiet and uncomplaining" mother, severely disabled by her stroke, had whiled away her days in a general care unit, and the specialist support she needed had barely begun.
From BBC ● May 29, 2024
Many have been in the tech sector, which hired heavily during the pandemic, when people whiled away time stuck at home playing games online.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
I whiled away many a pleasant hour gnawing at a flipper joint or splitting open bones and licking out their marrow.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Since their arrival in Kinshasa, a megacity of more than 17 million people, the 15 South American migrants have been whiling away their time in a complex near the airport.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
There seemed to be something basic or banal about whiling away hours in the gym.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025
Then he sold Google ads for a company called Linktech, whiling away his days cold-calling strangers who weren’t exactly happy to hear from him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Another photo is of me and my brother as kids, playing cards aboard a moving train, whiling away the time as we whiled away thousands of hours: together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Moose blew the exam by whiling away his time instead of studying.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
