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Upon noticing a grouping of doors in one area when meeting Skeete in person, Fielder says, “Oh, door city over here,” a premeditated line he had actually rehearsed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The smaller Newark, N.J., metropolitan division is a grouping within the larger metro area.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The average pay for a starting specialist—a positional grouping comprising mostly kickers and punters—in a Power Four football conference this season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
On this, members are likely to agree: none will want the grouping dismissed as merely a "talk shop".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Linguists agree in grouping all but a few Eurasian languages into about a dozen language families, each consisting of up to several hundred related languages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In this ruling, the court's justices divided into familiar groupings.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Critics of the change say this risks flattening meaningful distinctions between religious identities, particularly for service members whose beliefs do not fall neatly into major denominational groupings.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
The implications are alarming, since there currently are four industry groupings within the S&P 1,500 index that have trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Ultimately, the company believes that after it gets through this transition, the new age groupings will increase social activity.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
In the dozen or so photos in Google images, mostly head shots of Sarah with her violin and Rotary award ceremony groupings, she is slim, like Vivian, with an alert, guarded expression.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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