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Even with this temporary fix, the river is still trending toward the critical threshold at Lee’s Ferry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The streets remained closed for eight days as officials worked to fix the 110-year-old pipe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
But to fix the housing-affordability crisis, “all levels of government need to be involved, as well as the private sector and philanthropy,” Shea said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Historically, a worm would exploit a fixed set of vulnerabilities, and that meant you could fix these vulnerabilities and prevent the worm from propagating any further to devices that had been updated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Dad is coming for me in another eight weeks, and while I know this is what I asked for, what I wanted, I don’t know how I’m going to fix everything before I leave.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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In a scene that became the centerpiece of the film’s teaser trailer, Holmes fixes Fielder with an unwavering stare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He said in total there have been 66 fixes at oil and gas sites across the U.S. in the past year, and another 60 leaks under investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Since its release, the company has failed to attract a bigger audience to the game with a series of fixes and content updates.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Mr. Bessent has been jumping through hoops with short-term fixes that don’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
He fixes me with an odd, startled look.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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“Product-planning mistakes are not fixed easily or quickly,” said Oxcap analyst Stuart Pearson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Victoria Coronel, a student at the University of Matanza in Buenos Aires province, echoed some of the French students' grievances, including "broken things don't get fixed" and teachers leaving the profession because of low salaries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
"For people who are on a very fixed income, it literally is coming down to the point where it is fuel or food, which is awful because you've got to heat your home."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Courts would only be able to halt the affected portion of the project while the issue is fixed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
But it’s been more than a week since Mom left, and nothing is fixed at all.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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On Umá's rounded arm the woollen band Was fixt securely by the nurse's hand.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
This is the fixt Nature of Pleasure and Pain, and will always be found to be so by those who examine it.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Rapt in wonder, he gazed "up to the fixt stars, that radiant numberless host of heaven."
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Why do those Eyes, Loves Tapers, that on whomsoe'er they are fixt, kindle straight Desire, now seem to Nod, and Wink, and hardly Glimmer in their Sockets?
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
That Τριχῇ διάστατον ἀντίτυπον is nothing but a fixt spirit, the conspissation or coagulation of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone, which are indeed the Centrall Tasis or inward essence of the sensible world.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
He bought the vehicle on the cheap with the intention of fixing it up himself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Surgery can repair the torn ligament, but fixing the immediate injury does not necessarily prevent long-term joint damage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Naval Academy, having deemed GPS dependable, stopped teaching midshipmen celestial navigation—the discipline of fixing a ship’s position based on timed sightings of the sun and the stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
A centralized customer-service team fields customer calls and complaints, allowing shop workers to focus on fixing cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
One of the team taped up a sign with a single handwritten word: Plumbers—a joking reference to their mission of finding and fixing leaks.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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