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Recent Examples of incur
Carriers with the largest volume incur the greatest debt service.
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Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Designed to deliver comparable performance to the ZX135-7 diesel excavator, the ZX135-7EB model will incur lower maintenance costs and extend working hours.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
Rebooking travel after March 7 may incur additional costs.
—Dan Raby, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
Cameras do monitor arrivals and departures, and early arrivals or late check-outs incur a charge.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
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Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Designed to deliver comparable performance to the ZX135-7 diesel excavator, the ZX135-7EB model will incur lower maintenance costs and extend working hours.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
Rebooking travel after March 7 may incur additional costs.
—Dan Raby, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
Cameras do monitor arrivals and departures, and early arrivals or late check-outs incur a charge.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
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Over the course of decades, the Nationalists clashed with the Communist Party led by future dictator Mao Zedong, the Japanese Empire (which controlled the formerly Chinese island of Taiwan), and various warlords seeking to carve out their own kingdoms amid the chaos.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Associated Press left phone and email messages seeking comment from Vlachos.—
JULIE CARR SMYTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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Amazon frequently contracts with various interstate trucking businesses to transport both empty trailers and trailers containing heavy loads of freight between cities as well as between warehouses and fulfillment centers, authorities said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
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By this time, the scope of her life had contracted.—
Anika Burgess,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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The result is a House Republican Conference that has largely outsourced its political judgment to a president pursuing a policy that polling suggests is actively damaging its midterm prospects.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Even without race-conscious admissions, many schools want to pursue creating more racially and socioeconomically diverse student bodies.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Pentagon had accepted his compromise, Altman implied, because his safeguards were not smuggled into the contract as an arbitrary restriction of Pentagon freedom.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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These materials can accept electrons from one source and pass them along to another, allowing electrical signals to travel from the bacteria to the electrode.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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This level of detail is needed for a robotic model to learn exact hand movements that cannot be caught by the standard human point of view.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Secure loose outdoor items and adjust plans as necessary so you're not caught outside.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2026
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In the new year, Musk welcomed Hegseth to a meeting at SpaceX headquarters, where Hegseth unveiled a new partnership with Grok, which lately had been spending most of its time removing the clothes of women and children in photographs.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Ken Wigchert Laguna Niguel The Los Angeles Times welcomes expressions of all views.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2026
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