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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
There is no way to choose your telephone operator.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
If your employer pays you in cash and chooses to round, the rounding must go up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
There are also questions about what the movement chooses to fight for.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
If he does, though, good luck to whichever next-big-thing in Massachusetts politics chooses to end their career by primarying him.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Ana chooses the wine, and the waiter comes back with the bottle.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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
He chose the name for its alliterative “l’s.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
So the Prides chose that one, moving to Silver Spring, Md., and enrolling their son in top educational programs for deaf children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Rowan chose them himself, from the highest shelf in the coolhouse. You will like them."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
"We would obviously expect any course chosen to be safe for rowers," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
Die-hard fans of “The Bachelor” are known for their relentless online sleuthing in search of clues about who will be chosen in the season finale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
I had toasted her with champagne and given her the small gold watch my mother had chosen as her gift.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Alphabet is instead choosing to funnel resources to its Google Cloud business, which Nathanson believes is a more profitable strategy than “chasing frontier leadership at any cost.”
From MarketWatch ● 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
When choosing a gift, it’s helpful to follow certain parameters: nothing too ostentatious, too hefty or too idiosyncratic in design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Fed has held rates steady since January, choosing to wait to gauge the effects of energy price shocks and to let the tariffs' effects on prices ripple through the economy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Instead, some of us had begun calling ourselves “Negroes,” a term more of our choosing, though still not perfect.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
