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Less serious yellow call outs tend to have much longer waits.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Purple call outs tend to stay around the seven-minute target, and have ranged from six minutes 27 seconds to eight minutes nine seconds over the years.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
And private credit worries were back in the headlines, with Apollo Global Management capping cash outs at its $25 billion debt fund, Apollo Debt Solutions.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Airports in Atlanta and Houston were hit hard by worker call outs this week as the spring-break rush continued.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
His ironies, and these ins and outs of a border-dispute with Orgoreyn, were of no interest to me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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