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In the before times otherwise known as August 2026, Moshkovitz was talking with a colleague about the Unique Games Conjecture, a highly abstract problem that had occupied her mind for more than a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Worries about oil back over $100 a barrel and the Iran conflict flaring up again are top of mind heading into the weekend,” said Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Bamford, on the other hand, has made a career out of being so deeply in touch with her mind and self that it would frighten the average neurotypical viewer if it weren’t so damn funny.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
"You may slow down your movements and stop exercising, you're treating yourself and your body and mind as if you are already ill."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
But while my body is doing what Grandma tells it to do, my mind is drifting back to the last time I saw my mom.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Many people have made their minds up about Meghan and the saga with her father is only part of the tangled story of the duchess and the rest of the royal family.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
In an era when creative minds are feeling the existential threat of fast-moving tech, readers still seek authors like James whose style no AI agent—or any other human—can replicate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
SpaceX merger commentary is arguably the biggest thing on the minds of Tesla investors right now — and Musk had nothing new to offer on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
You can’t force people to change their minds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Both men were sympathetic, but I felt that already they had made up their minds that Bartok would not get well in time for the race.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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But unlike many of the dozens of other similarly minded people and groups working in Africa, Scott and Stauring came not to preach, but to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The committee's chair Maureen Freeman, Labour, said the panel was "not minded to grant the licence as requested".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
On balance, Gave is minded to forecast the yen’s depreciating days may be ending.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
She “never minded working hard,” she sings, but she had a lot of concern about “who I’m working for.”
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people's children.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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“Was he minding the store? There’s a lot of work to be done at the office,” Rosenblum said.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Ihab Ayad, a relative of the women, said that they had been "minding their own business" at home when Israel carried out the strike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry for the Roebucks too. Two innocent people minding their own business.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Whether you’re meticulously minding your macronutrients or not, Lev Sercarz has more ways to make dynamic seasonings part of everyday eating and drinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
On the day I'm thinking of now, we were more or less minding our own business too.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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