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Can Arsenal retain the Premier League title they won for the first time in 22 years last season?
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s good-humored without being comedy or satire but opens serious friendly discussions about contemporary problems,” reader Christine Almeida writes of the novel that won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the Los Angeles case, the woman won $6 million from Meta and YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"We won Olympic gold and some papers still put 'jolly hockey sticks' in the headline. That's so far from reality and so far removed from what the sport is about."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
When your mama learned he’d won it in a poker match, she was angry as a hornet.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
But while in early morn she wonned alone And Paris slept, shrill rose her singing tone, And brave the light on kindled cheeks and eyes: Brave as her hope is, brave the flag she flies.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
But small pleasaunce took Little John In all he heard and saw; Till he reached the cave of a hermit old Who wonned within the shaw.
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
Offering there hath he made Saint James, candles him paid, Gold on the shrine hath laid; Now Gobertz Is for Toulouse, where that maid Tibors wonned unafraid Of Love and his accolade That breaketh hearts.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The castle would have been right fair and rich had any folk wonned therein, but none there were save one old priest and his clerk that lived within by their own toil.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
There by him now stood the beakers and bowls, 172 There lay the dishes and dearly-wrought swords, Rusty, through-eaten they, as in earth's bosom A thousand of winters there they had wonned.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
Temple devout! where God chose his wonning,* *abode From which, these misbeliev'd deprived be, To you my soule penitent I bring; Receive me, for I can no farther flee.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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