a certain
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Ruben Dias: Rattled by Jackson in the first half but made a good block to deny Alysson a certain goal.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I’m going to be helping a certain air company get themselves straightened away,” he said, after he learned it has significant domestic operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s a caricature of a certain sort of pretentious, blingy rich person, as if the actor wanted to get as far as possible from Donna Berzatto on “The Bear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
A stop loss sets a limit to how much an investor is willing to lose by triggering an automatic sell at a certain threshold.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Neither did I, until a certain princess gave me a solid shove for no good reason.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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