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owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
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George Gresham, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
Revenues from network infrastructure and cloud network services each fell by 6% year-over-year, owing to weak demand for internet protocol—particularly in the Americas and EMEA regions.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Flights from Moscow to Istanbul passed over Ukraine for nearly an hour, but Russia, owing to the COVID pandemic, had cancelled flights to Turkey.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The event was a transparent attempt to lift Tesla’s stock price, which has suffered recently in large part owing to mounting anti-Musk public sentiment.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
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