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Like other people getting ready for retirement, Trump may choose to focus on home improvement.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“I think most people get that I’d choose the water before the wine,” she said on a later radio show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Because with comedy, you could choose improv, you could choose sketch, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
"I understand why people might not choose to have filler, it makes people unique, it's nice to have something that makes people different," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
At one of the food tables, Dad and Aunt Melissa are helping Lily choose between a cheeseburger and brisket.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Much like her character Klara, Ortega chooses to have faith in humans and their spontaneous wonder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The same event can look like evidence of a system working or a system failing, depending on which part of the story one chooses to emphasize.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
This is equally true whether the suspect immediately surrenders or chooses to flee.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Ms. Hoyer, a German-British historian and journalist, chooses as her protagonist not Hitler, a frequent Weimar visitor, but Carl Weirich, a hardworking bookbinder, stationer and diarist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I am not one to press my company upon those who do not value it. If Dumbledore chooses to ignore the warnings the cards show —” Her bony hand closed suddenly around Harry’s wrist.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Several drivers represented by lawyer Andrew Flusche chose a device over a commuting-only license suspension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Stevens chose to pull her switcheroo, yet El-Sayed has done a bunch of tactically questionable things that seem to have made that outcome more likely—and could make it more politically damaging, too.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Ultimately, she chose to do so because her husband, Bill Higgins, was unable to handle the home’s staircase.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
When the sentence was announced, the man said in Arabic: "I went to Syria, but it was my mother who chose for me. What is my fault?"
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
A table, some chairs, a set of drawers to keep any interesting things he might find on an adventure—these were the first pieces Duane chose to take.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Each of the three mixed programs chosen by artistic director Susan Jaffe for American Ballet Theatre’s now-annual fall season at the David H. Koch Theater, which ended on Saturday, concluded with a rewarding highpoint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
So far, El-Sayed has chosen to downplay it.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Instead, they may have deliberately chosen a particular location and returned to it repeatedly to lay deceased members of their community to rest.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
All 141 successful candidates were chosen by students from universities across Serbia through a lengthy, secretive and carefully crafted process, and tasked with implementing the movement's plan for a complete rebuild of the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
It was not only that she half wished she had chosen the navy-blue dress rather than the brown, although that did cross her mind.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Then, they look at why Weil, Gotshal & Mange, a top Wall Street law firm, is choosing to shut its doors and what that says about the industry.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
"I am being punished for not only supporting my wife's work and activism, but for choosing this path of resisting injustice as our life journey together," Chatta said in his statement to Dawn News.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The uncertainty over her departure has frustrated some ECB staff and complicated the process for choosing her replacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
In that case, the county and the union each would select one member, with the sides together choosing the third person, who would serve as the panel’s chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
In the early days of space travel, one consideration in choosing astronauts was weight.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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