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"And if you're a parent, then you've got kids at home and it's just a bit more chaotic," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

So I was a bit surprised when John Angelos said that he would like to see me at the beginning of the summer of 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Another earnings season is just around the corner, and more companies than usual have had upbeat expectations, while their executives are also a bit less preoccupied with inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026

“It wasn’t pretty in the first half, I understand,” Chesney said, a bit apologetically, when asked about Saturday’s crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Torak cried out as the flint bit between finger and thumb.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The Nestor spoke—the colt submitted— And, like his ancestry, was bitted.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

I thought that enough for the river, wid a fower fathom bottom; so, I’ve bitted it at that, an’ me an’ Jackson are a-sayin’ about clearin’ the cable range now.”

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

Foam from the heavily bitted mouth flashed back in great yellow flakes against Kirby’s dust-caked aviator’s tunic.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

Tom made another rush at the obstinate animal, which cantered off again, working considerably harder than it would if it had submitted patiently to being bitted.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

Lord Howard's horse was worse bitted than those of the two former noblemen, but not so much so as to derange the ceremony of retiring back out of the Hall.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Saxe, what man of yours is that who is bitting Grey Roland?

From The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond

A little shadow passes over my mind as I think of the analogy to bitting a horse.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.

From South Sea Tales by Jack London

It is true, he was on the whole rather an innocent monster; and between bitting and bridling, coaxing and humouring, might have been made to pad on well enough.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

This bit is what is called the persuader, and it is the best bit that ever was used for bitting colts.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young