winter
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Both OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to launch trillion-dollar IPOs this autumn or winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Storage levels in Europe are much lower than normal for the time of year, and the need to fill reserves ahead of the winter has helped to push up prices.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
It would represent a small and desperately needed ray of sunshine, before what could be baseball’s nuclear winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Carney said the goal of the energy support is "to help Ukrainians get through the winter," a difficult period when the country endures rolling blackouts amid often frigid temperatures.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The climbing rose that my mother protected every winter had died.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Looking back at previous winters that followed a strong El Niño since 1900, just one - the winter of 1982/83 - saw widespread disruptive snow.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The gas was bought at peak prices and sold back into the market over the next two winters for an estimated total revenue of €2 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"We found loss-of-function mutations in certain genes that regulate circadian rhythms, suggesting they may have adapted to the extreme light cycles of summers and winters in northern latitudes."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Increasingly inconsistent weather patterns — including hotter summers, mild winters and a lack of summer moisture — make an already dynamic and complex job more unpredictable and difficult to navigate.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Take whatever clothes and woolens you might need. Baltimore winters can be mighty cold, they say.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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He consulted her remotely when he wintered in Florida; he has also seen his cardiologist and his sleep specialist through telehealth.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
In the classic migration pattern, flocks that wintered in the southern U.S. fly north in the spring, returning to the same spots in the high and sub-Arctic to breed and nest.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 16, 2020
The social pages followed his comings and goings, when he summered in Bar Harbor and wintered in Boca Raton.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
One swan got blown to Arkansas in a snowstorm in the early 1990s, and wintered in Heber Springs, north of Little Rock, she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
There rabbits and ptarmigan gathered to eat seeds out of the wind, and moose wintered on the twigs of the willows.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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Years before the project began, migrating ospreys had been spotted in Poole Harbour, en route from Scotland to their wintering grounds in north Africa.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
After spending the summer in the Hamptons, Icahn is wintering at his house on the Miami-area island known as Billionaire Bunker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Between May and August, thousands of wintering red-billed queleas gather at waterholes in Namibia.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
With fall underway in Antarctica, some bird species are starting to scatter to their wintering areas.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 18, 2024
They lounged around the pond for a couple of days, chatting with Roz whenever she came by, and then they continued flying south to their wintering grounds.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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