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Recent Examples of ancillary
Either at an ancillary hearing or earlier by order, Holcomb will need to grant Ohtani’s motion to ensure the cards go to him.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Sources put the number of serious collectors at below 20, with an ancillary market of only a few hundred.
—Maricarmen Barrios, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
The statement included a chart showing that in 2023, ancillary revenues were a small fraction of the average price for a domestic roundtrip ticket and accounted for less than taxes imposed under federal law.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2024
The easyJet group, which comprises an airline and a package holiday provider, said ancillary revenue — which includes additional luggage allowances, seat selection, priority boarding, in-flight meals and its holiday business — increased 22% to £3.59 billion ($4.5 billion) year-on-year.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Sources put the number of serious collectors at below 20, with an ancillary market of only a few hundred.
—Maricarmen Barrios, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
The statement included a chart showing that in 2023, ancillary revenues were a small fraction of the average price for a domestic roundtrip ticket and accounted for less than taxes imposed under federal law.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2024
The easyJet group, which comprises an airline and a package holiday provider, said ancillary revenue — which includes additional luggage allowances, seat selection, priority boarding, in-flight meals and its holiday business — increased 22% to £3.59 billion ($4.5 billion) year-on-year.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
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Americans deserve a government that treats national security as a top priority and not one that is negotiable or secondary to the interests of private wealthy donors.Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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According to the military, the strike triggered secondary explosions, suggesting the presence of explosives at the site.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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He is set for a bond hearing Tuesday at the jail’s auxiliary court, the outlet reported.Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
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In August 2020, the observatory started crumbling after an auxiliary cable snapped, causing damage to the telescope’s dish and the receiver platform that hung above it, according to the National Science Foundation.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The social critique was still in there but subordinate to these rich, comically flawed characters, each getting something like their own book.Adam Moss, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
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The four-star Army general in charge of U.S. Central Command is under investigation on allegations of pushing a subordinate service member during a recent trip to the Middle East, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.Courtney Kube, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Effective immediately, Ma was succeeded by Echo Huang, an executive director of the company and CEO of subsidiary New World China Land since 2020, New World announced in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday.Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Since Narasimhan’s arrival at the helm in 2018, the group has separated from its subsidiary Alcon, which specialises in ophthalmology, listing it separately, and from Sandoz, which specialises in generic medicines, in 2023, also through an IPO.Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2024
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Movement intention originates in the brain, which sends electrical impulses through the peripheral nerves to tell the muscle to contract.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024
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None of these peripheral characters feel fully sketched out, despite the actors trying to liven things up; at least Crowe lends gravitas and a sense of anarchy to his nightmare of a patriarch, and Nivola seems to be having fun prior to his CGI transformation thing.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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Most people do not use a fireplace as a primary heat source, however a wood burning fireplace that works as a supplementary heat source may reduce a home’s reliance on central heating.Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Even though some Roomba models cost more than full-size vacuum cleaners, they’re still only meant for supplementary cleaning.Camryn Rabideau, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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There are supplemental policies from private insurers which are not taxed that will increase your income in case you are disabled.James Brewer, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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This plan will likely involve increasing the amount of supplemental food given to the fish.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2024
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The downside to a larger bill encompassing both tax cuts and other Trump campaign promises is that the more contentious issues, such as immigration policy, can require difficult votes for marginal members from districts where the policy may not be popular, and derail a broader bill.Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
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Individual tax rates are set to tick up Several marginal income tax rates are set to increase in 2026 in what would be the most noticeable single aspect of the TCJA expirations.Tobias Burns, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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