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countdown

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Recent Examples of countdown In related news, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the final case of Ebola that had been diagnosed in Uganda had been released from hospital on Thursday, starting the 42-day countdown to declare the country Ebola free. — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 July 2026 The rocket was stacked overnight, according to a SpaceX post on X, and now awaits prelaunch procedures ahead of the beginning of Flight 13's launch countdown. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 July 2026 Unfortunately, a hold that late in the countdown prevents SpaceX from recycling for another attempt. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 One of the clearest reminders of Meghan’s absence came at the one-year countdown to the 2027 Birmingham Invictus Games on July 10, where she had originally been expected to appear alongside Harry. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for countdown

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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.

— Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026

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PayPal has been working with investment banks on takeover and activist defense for the last few months and had already shrugged off initial overtures from Stripe, Semafor reported earlier this year.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026

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Blake Snell has just started a rehab assignment and is multiple starts away from returning to the rotation after surgery to remove bone chips from his left elbow.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Seven of those games were starts, and one outing came after Hart opened the Padres’ July 2 game at Dodger Stadium.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026

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These Space Act Agreements were intended as a prelude to a second phase of the program, which would award substantially more funding to one or two more companies to proceed into the construction and launch of their space stations.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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