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“I gotta ask you something—it sounds like you’re trying to discourage me—are you?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
If any of the representatives have concerns, maybe then they’ll get to ask West how this could be acceptable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
And its government may have to ask itself some awkward questions about the strength of its cyber-security defences, including whether the healthcare data could have been better protected.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Then ask your parents what protections they already have in place,” Viktorin said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The next day, I ask: “Did Ma try to teach you how to read?”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“If we’re shutting down hunger,” she asks, “what else are we shutting down?”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Such extra dimensions have been proposed as one possible answer to the hierarchy problem, a longstanding question in physics that asks why gravity is dramatically weaker than the other fundamental forces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Don well?" asks the Daily Mirror, embedding a photo of the two leaders shaking hands in New York City.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
She asks how I’m enjoying my 20s, to which I bluntly reply, “It’s a nightmare.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
When she sees a large opening in the ground behind the Engineering Building, she makes a mental note of the soldiers going in and out and playfully asks, “What’s that?”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Sheriff’s officials said Summit Valley Road remains open for travel, but asked the public remain clear of the area for the investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
"They had jumped through every hoop asked of them, had arranged and rearranged their lives around this day," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In a recent test, Schossau asked Google’s Nano Banana to make AI photos of mac-n-cheese and shrimp scampi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“I called up the client and asked what’s really going on. The client broke down crying,” Haubrich said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Have you been in some sort of accident?” the badger asked.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
They dig into the research on socioeconomic integration, the tendency to conflate race and class, and the problem with asking individual parents to solve what is really a policy problem.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
But now, local health officials said, many affected by the Pennsylvania outbreak are seeing their neighbours fall seriously ill and asking thoughtful questions.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“People are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community. To use the stage for more than entertainment,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
First, I was a 30-year-old asking questions of my parents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
But Anna May and I were just starting out as friends, so I only said, “Thanks for asking me to tag along. I hope we can do it again.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
