columns

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They handed him their code: a fat “yield book,” containing hundreds of pages filled with columns of numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

This type of concrete building lacks enough steel to keep the brittle concrete in the columns from exploding when shaken in an earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

“I’ve said some pretty horrible things about her,” he said about writing columns critical of her, “and she’s always nice enough when I talk to her.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

Prior to his TV career, Shalit was a senior film critic for Look Magazine, and continued to spend years penning columns in the New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal and TV Guide.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë