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[lay-buhl] / ˈleΙͺ bΙ™l /




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Raye has enjoyed an impressive past few years since leaving her label after expressing frustration that they were holding out on releasing her debut album.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“It was obvious that the record was going to be about that,” said Dailor, sitting with the others in an upstairs loft at the Hollywood offices of the band’s label, Loma Vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But the number on the label does not necessarily match the calories your body actually absorbs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

They looked like tiny illustrations of fish pulled from the label of a particularly fancy tin of sardines, with hooks attached.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

This great transformation has escaped proper attention because it does not have a label, and it does not have a label primarily because it is three transformations rolled into one.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Schellekens said the blanket labels could be misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

After the backlash, Spotify posted its content moderation rules and said it would add content advisory labels on COVID-related podcasts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

They produced a bumper amount of honey this year - enough for 150 jars of the sweet nectar - and local school children are helping design the labels.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Our job was to sort through the massive mailer box of padded envelopes and bubble mailers that came in from record labels, big, small and in-between.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Ella riffled through the cabinet of herbs, eyes scanning over all the little drawers of dried roots and plants, the labels in Latin: trillium grandiflorum, viburnum, eugenia pimenta, and so on.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

One note: That second newsletter labeled CEO Brief yesterday morning was sent by mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

By commodity trade, Hayes is mainly referring to the memory stocks that have been labeled the picks-and-shovels play of the AI infrastructure boom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Board members approved the apartment expense in June 2018, according to emails, and labeled the apartment and associated costs a “business travel expense”; no different than paying for a hotel, they wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Both Gershkovich and his employer vehemently denied he was a spy and the US State Department labeled him "wrongfully detained."

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

There was one thick binder labeled “Vietnam: McNaughton Eyes Only.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Publishers sign up to the scheme for a fee, and can then request to get their authors' books labelled with the Books By People mark.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The glasses are divisive, and have been labelled by some as "pervert glasses" because they can be used to film covertly.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Rajan labelled him the "Lord of Chaos", but Hall stayed loyal.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Earlier this year, when she was a backbench MP and not a government minister, Angela Rayner, herself a former care worker, labelled the proposals "un-British".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Poirot finished his search by opening the little cupboard above the washbasin and taking a rapid glance at its contents—a sponge, face cream, powder and a small bottle labelled trional.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Today, consumers and companies face a patchwork of state programs and conflicting labeling requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

It’s also usually the manufacturer’s responsibility to ensure everything on those products’ labeling is accurate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Awareness of these findings appears to influence attitudes toward food labeling.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Recalling the model airplane sets he assembled as a child, he arranged a fish, a chicken and a duck as a collection of dissected parts on a tabletop, labeling it with instructions for reconstruction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The American Beverage Association had promised to improve the clarity of its ingredient labeling.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Providing more bins or clearer labelling are some of the ways in which businesses could make a difference, said waste reduction charity Wrap.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Several labelling schemes, including from Britain, France and Germany, were being showcased at the world's biggest book industry fair in Frankfurt this week, where the challenges posed by AI were hotly debated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Although it's important to note that this contest hasn't been a bed of roses, with Monica Lennon labelling the party "quite nasty" when she failed to make the final leadership ballot.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The country's largest and most influential traditional institution, the Buganda Kingdom, said it mourned with the people of Tooro following the death of their monarch, labelling him a valuable figure to Uganda.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The living-room; what a good job of labelling that was now.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury


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