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“We can choose to live a passionate life,” he avers, “learning and growing far longer than we ever expected to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Charles Rhodes, professor of law at the University of Missouri, told me the future of this lawsuit will likely come down to how the courts choose to define an “aggrieved” person.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys has said the people of the United Kingdom should "be able to choose our leaders" as he releases a documentary exploring the role of the Royal Family.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have them, and it doesn’t mean I don’t care. Nor does it mean I don’t support causes in my own, personal way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
I choose three more tiles from the bag to replace the R and two E’s I just used and arrange them on my tile stand.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
If Smelyansky chooses not to send a van in, he faces criticism.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
If your employer pays you in cash and chooses to round, the rounding must go up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
“When a company intentionally chooses to deepen operational dependencies on strategic competitors, it fails to act as the reliable partner the American public and this DOT require,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Other times the canvas can still be enormous; what’s small is the intimate story Scott chooses to tell within it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ana chooses the wine, and the waiter comes back with the bottle.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
The mother of The Times’ art critic chose to evacuate with some silverware and a Spanish shawl, “in case we needed to sell something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hoskins chose to comply with the lower court judge’s order over the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I’ve worked with clients this year who chose a lower salary because the role felt more stable,” Chelsea Jay, a recruiter and professional career coach at ResumeCoach, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
But instead of turning to their three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback in his first game back from knee surgery, the Chiefs chose to lean on a brand new option.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
But Mrs. Sasaki chose the tiniest one made of fancy green paper with pink parasols on it.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
After audience members have chosen cards from a pack, he turns each card into a joker, which he uses to signify “lack of freedom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The peptides are routinely used in “stacks”; chosen at random, with arbitrarily chosen doses; and two drugs from the same class may be included for reasons that defy explanation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Navy had recently chosen Damen “to help it fast-track a new fleet” of a different type of vessel: up to 35 medium-sized ships to move troops and supplies to shorelines.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
It is likely the site has been chosen because of its proximity to the offshore wind farm which could give the developer some "green" kudos.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Because there must have been something a little bit special about him if I had chosen him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
“Agency” is wielding power and autonomy in choosing how to live; “belonging” is forging social ties with others; and “cause” is serving a higher purpose.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
By carefully choosing the size and spacing of these pillars, the team caused light to remain inside the meta-surface slightly longer and circulate within it instead of simply passing straight through.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
For much of his career, he flew the Airbus A320, choosing the smaller domestic workhorse over the widebody planes that fly internationally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Sheeran explained in his post he was on board with Macklemore’s request to play on his Loop tour and agreed that the rapper could play the setlist of his choosing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
“The Council’s little democratic strategy is cute, but you can’t make choosing the new Mother Earth a popularity contest.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
