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Winger Christos Tzolis, who has shone at times this season following his summer arrival, suffered a hamstring issue with Greece and, with Eberechi Eze out of form, Arteta used Noni Madueke on the left wing.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Tuesday's screening was attended by celebrities including Zach Cregger, Hannah Einbinder, Meg Stalter, Aziz Ansari and Hasan Piker, and during a discussion afterward the directors described their experience as "really sad and hard at times."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
“We’re not New Jersey. We’re not Mississippi,” noted Seth Warren, a local-politics expert at the University of Connecticut, referring to other states with at times unsavory reputations for corruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
And yet I found myself strangely apathetic and at times resistant to participating in any of the hoopla around the Shannon/Narducy ensemble.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
I remember feeling rather like a hopeless case at times, when I was a lad.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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