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Recent Examples of semiweekly
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Ohtani resumed semiweekly bullpens once the regular season started — lighter sessions on Wednesdays followed by more intensive ones on the weekends — and had been increasing the number of pitches in his bullpens over recent weeks.—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025 On a semiweekly podcast hosted by the conservative Web site the Dispatch, Bishop Seitz suggested that Vance was poorly informed about both Aquinas and the Church’s work.—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025 For your semiweekly update on rainfall and drought conditions, one piece of good news is that the wildfire blazes and smoke plumes in Virginia have been fully contained with help from recent rains.—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023 Cancer patient turned away Scheduled for semiweekly lab work, Christina Campbell’s mother is a cancer patient who relies on Kaiser services for treatment.—Jennifer Korn, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023 After Friday, unvaccinated workers who won’t submit to semiweekly coronavirus testing will be placed on unpaid leave.—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
However, heavy spenders who consistently exceed $3,000 quarterly in dining, airfare, or hotels may find the caps limiting.
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Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
During his first term, Trump publicly asked the SEC on X, then still known as Twitter, to study shifting company disclosures from a quarterly to semiannual basis, stating business leaders felt less frequent reporting would allow for greater flexibility and long-term planning.
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Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
With over 110 million daily active users and a market cap of nearly $40 billion, Reddit is a giant in the social media world.
Studies on bohemianism tend to emphasize the primacy of cities, where radical and eclectic ideas were shared through newspapers, literary periodicals, coffeehouses, bars, cafés, bookstores, and art galleries.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
Written and directed by Mickey Reece (Climate of the Hunter, Mickey Reece’s Alien), Every Heavy Thing stars Josh Fadem (Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, 30 Rock) as a mild-mannered ad salesperson for an online periodical, who witnesses a murder and spirals into paranoia.
The comments were picked up by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, and CNN asked the two former US Navy officers to review that report and the video.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
The chairman claimed his words had been taken out of context, but his comments were splashed across the back of the newspapers and caused a storm of controversy.
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