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homework

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as in schoolwork

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Recent Examples of homework Do your homework, but restrict today’s spending (during the Moon Alert) to food and gas. — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 14 July 2026 Retirees who treat it as a growth engine, load up beyond what their overall allocation can absorb, skip the homework on dealer fees and premiums or ignore what the Fed does next are the ones most likely to get burned. — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 13 July 2026 Perhaps the Padres’ homework on first-rounder Coleman Borthwick will pay off in more ways than one. — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2026 Cece, who was fifteen, was having a busy week of classes and theatre practice and homework. — Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for homework

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Under the keys, the OmniBook 3 runs on an AMD Ryzen 3 30 processor, which is terrific for easy tasks like casual browsing, schoolwork, or streaming.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
Reading for fun isn’t just about fun Outside of schoolwork, a child can read anywhere from as few as 100,000 words per year to 10 million or more for the most voracious readers.

— Michelle Kearney, The Conversation, 7 July 2026

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The goal is to reduce digital interruptions, improve students’ engagement with classroom lessons, increase face-to-face interactions and reduce conflicts that play out on social media during school hours.

— Elizabeth Dowdell, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Those battlefield lessons are now reshaping procurement decisions across Europe.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 15 July 2026

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Turkey moved fastest, deploying troops to its base and airlifting food within days, a role that also nudged Ankara's own reading of the Gulf.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
The smoke and other meteorological factors, such as light winds and predicted flow from the north, will produce high readings of fine particulate matter, which are predicted to be in the unhealthy range in northern Indiana.

— Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

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