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“Oh, my brother. Only an Aussie would ask me that,” a bemused Ossoff responded with a smile to TMZ reporter Charlie Cotton, who is Australian.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Life is all about perspective. If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector,” Price wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Clients don’t ask how old my lawyer is,” Vasquez said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
I ask him what the biggest lessons have been on the walk.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I hear Caesar’s voice: “If you ask him, Midnight will give you his heart.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
In the letter, Angela asks if he really must swim the Channel.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Is there an opener?” asks Godrich, who holds a bottle of fancy root beer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Who needs hospitals and insurance,” Kyle asks, “when we have TikTok and YouTube?”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The first treats the machine as the source of agency; the second asks who designed the environment in which the machine acted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
With a secretive smile, he asks, “Busy tomorrow?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“An eternity,” coach Sean McVay said when asked about the 11-day wait between games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Indeed, they were dismissive of Rotkoff’s own efforts to help them: He described to me how O’Rourke initially missed out on the AFL-CIO’s endorsement because his campaign hadn’t asked for it.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
I’ve never asked her to pay for anything.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Jorge Mas, the billionaire co-owner of the Inter Miami soccer club and a close friend of Rubio, says Trump once asked him what it would cost to rebuild the island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"Sancho, where's your master? You haven't killed him, have you?" the priest asked.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
He told me his Bitcoin origin story, which was occasionally interrupted by young boys asking him for an autograph.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Educator Kendall C. Peacock posted a video on Instagram asking followers whether a boycott of the brand was warranted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Then ominously an official called from the airport asking Aster to collect her luggage.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
To the dear readers, friends and family asking, “Should I upgrade?” consider this my official response: It depends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I shouldn’t let her get to me. I mean, we’re talking about someone who felt the need to prove she was a badass at the expense of a random teenager asking a completely valid question.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
