vs.
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verse.
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versus.
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The singer likes L.A., though she hasn’t quite “figured out my work life here,” she says, meaning a fine-grained understanding of “work friends vs. friend friends,” as she puts it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Carrying balances on those accounts is a flashing red light that changes need to be made to your budget. Don’t burn calories worrying about 3.75% vs. 4% when you are paying 20%.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
However, in the wake of widespread layoffs at various companies that employ entertainment writers, this closing of ranks within the world of entertainment publicity creates an “us vs. them” mentality.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Third place went to the much-delayed, mixed animation-and-live action Looney Tunes flick "Coyote vs. Acme," with revenue of $11.3 million as it slipped from second place in its second week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some Birthday vs. a Particular Birthday Sigmund Freud once remarked that there was no such thing as a coincidence.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
This is directly analogous to the "car v.s. driver" question posed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2015
The film is to be based on the Rolling Stone article “Anonymous v.s. Steubenville,” and will reportedly focus on Lostutter’s life and role in the hacker collective Anonymous, The Hollywood reports.
From Time ● Apr. 2, 2014
An old British church at Canterbury, which had been desecrated by the heathen invaders, was restored for Christian use and dedicated to St. Pancras by Augustine.510.Eanfled, v.s. c.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
The MS. authority is about equal; but cf. infra, the statement that he died in the seventeenth year of his episcopate, which seems to be correct.371.651 a.d.; v.s. c.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
For the internal state of Northumbria, v.s. p.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
This tale of life and aspiration in colonial Trinidad is one of V.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The 20th century’s most piercing diagnostician of societies—as V.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Building on an essay she wrote in The Paris Review during the height of #MeToo, Dederer explores the moral dimensions of art made by people who behaved monstrously, from Pablo Picasso to V.S.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
He drew on a piece he had written for a proposed musical adaptation of V.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
“The fact that V.S. came to see me on the exact same day you disappeared. The fact that she somehow figured out where you were. The fact that Gen had a jump rope.”
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“When we win in bras, we create a halo across the entire VS brand,” Ms. Super boasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
“When we win in bras, we create a halo across the entire VS brand,” Super said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Go ahead 2-run homerun game tied at 7-7 in the 7th inning VS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
"Generation comes and goes, but the nation stays," he wrote in a message read aloud by his deputy, VS Atem, as he was too weak to speak himself.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
By contrast, if you were simply to run into a girl on the street, the probability that her sibling is a boy would be VS.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
The court scheduled the case of Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil vs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Kelly said AI-literacy is important, and being able to spot real vs fake is essential.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was a staggering defeat of a sailing behemoth, a Billie Jean King vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
JPMorgan’s market-intelligence team focused on short-term, or what’s called tactical, strategy, looking at daily sentiment, order flows and positioning, vs the more fundamental research the bank also provides.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Instead of playing parpartuni, he and his friends were playing Army vs.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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