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Now, NBC’s six-year deal with the Premier League is worth more than $450 million a season, a more than five-fold increase on the initial contract.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The Houston-based company raised $600 million in its initial public offering late Tuesday at $21.50 a share, valuing the company at $5.9 billion.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Those initial days were the most difficult, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The court then said that "nobody can blame" the senior pilot and that there was "no suggestion of his fault in the initial report".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Other than his initial ice-axe-and-soup-ladle science, Don Swanson’s job was geodetic monitoring, which meant very accurately measuring and analyzing the size and shape of the earth.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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