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Los Alamitos 6, Edison 5: A two-run double by Willie Adams keyed the comeback win.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
It’s doubtful that any trading algorithms kicked in, except those that might have been keyed to a sharp reversal of trading sentiment from earlier in the week, when it was pretty sour.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Morgan also predicts selling of about $4.7 billion of gold keyed off the Bloomberg index rebalancing, following the metal’s gain during 2025.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
Painstakingly—because he hadn’t really learned how to type yet—he keyed in “Rochester, Emma, and Finn” and added the words “kidnapped” and “news.”
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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