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Friday's ruling by the Tokyo high court marks an exception to this series of verdicts, which had been adding weight to the push for same-sex marriage to be legalised in Japan.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Big banks had been adding staff over the past year in strategic expansions, but now sudden jumps in activity have them seeking to hire even more and slowing layoffs they might have otherwise executed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

But when volatility started to settle down from mid-June, they had been adding only about $0.5 billion a day, Pascale said.

From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022

In the four years preceding the pandemic, the city had been adding non-Hispanic White residents at a rate of around 4,000 to 5,000 each year.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

I had been adding on more and more towers and buildings.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore