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The haste of the transaction would seem to have given the buyers superior leverage, yet Walter negotiated a 25% increase on the $10 billion he spent on the team last October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Paul Pogba is the only midfield player United have signed for more than the £70m they are committing to Baleba which, given his age, is a statement in itself.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Wisdom in the old is an aspiration, not a given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Foot Locker, which Dick’s acquired in September 2025, had a harder time of it, given its greater exposure to legacy sneaker brands and its greater dependency on launch and retro products.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Once, we’d teamed up to teach a group of Red Lake rez kids how to play Cherokee marbles out on the dock, and Trey had given me this look.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
His thinking begins instead with three separate givens: God, world, human being.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
They call each other wives, because in 2025 same-sex marriage and parenting are givens, not distant fantasies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
My criticism is not that these characterizations don’t ring true to me, but that they are givens enacted with such fidelity that they render the world static.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The givens, all I’d been taught, fell away like so many covers when you sit up in bed.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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