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They are also supposed to “advocate and work for policy changes to increase equity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Mendoza said residents and community groups should not have to take on the work of keeping their own blocks clean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"It beggars belief that they want to go and work, treat people in homes when actually... you can treat a bigger group collectively in a hospital rather than with individual staff," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Its shareholder letter noted the impact on search-engine optimization, saying “AI-related disruption to traditional SEO efforts” had hit “both low-value and high-end work on the platform.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
As Phineas gradually feels better, he wants to go right out and get back to work.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Tejarat has said it complies with international law and works in the interest of the Iranian economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Santa Rosa resident Chara Brazley said she received a panicked call from her 24-year-old daughter, who works at Ulta Beauty at the shopping center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"When your team-mate works against you and then you lose positions like that, it's definitely tough," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Struggles in reading are not a sign of low ability but often reflect one specific skill that needs strengthening within a larger system that works together."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
If I can get in early, before anyone’s there, maybe I can learn enough about how the internet works to figure out what I need.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
The panel worked with Le Hegarat on an amendment to address that, external.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Sheen — born Ramón Estévez, the son of a Spanish émigré who worked in an Ohio factory — argues that Americans are inherently hopeful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
But for those looking to buy on a dip, why not pick a spot that worked before?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
"If we're doing this, it's because everything we've tried before hasn't worked," a student replied.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
With the block and tackle we worked it up and down in the boiling water.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Klitschko has said that Kyiv -- largely spared from the devastation wrought near the frontlines in nearly five years of conflict -- should now be on a war footing due to the upsurge in attacks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Alice’s humanity is defined by her total rejection of the manufactured digital world and the havoc its creators wrought.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He largely espouses esoteric prognostications of how 8 billion human deaths could be wrought by hostile machines, and even though many that admit this outcome is unlikely, it takes up a lot of their attention.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Reeling from these two fat books, I pulled from the shelves Peter Ackroyd’s 1983 novel, “The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde”—densely wrought, impressionistic and all wrapped up in about 180 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was even commissioned to make a wrought iron gate.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
How do you approach working with a gem that holds so much history?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The case covers payments made at the very end of his time as a working royal.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
“The Department remains committed to a thorough investigation and to working toward accountability and justice for the victims, businesses, and others impacted by the Newhall Fire,” the department said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"We firmly hope the government will understand that when something's working, you don't have to change it," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Freedmen were a Muscogee Nation–level issue and climate change was a global one—bigger than the scope of a group of teenagers working together to create short-format video content.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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