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Sonders: What they consistently get wrong is greed and panic, the classic extreme emotions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Drivers may also pay lower premiums if they aren’t driving the insured car every day, typical for a classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The reason: You are now in that classic window for conversions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But this tyrannical posturing reminds me not of some low-rent X-Men film but rather Syndrome, the villain in the Pixar classic “The Incredibles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“That was a classic Mike Burry trade,” says one of his investors.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Sound advice for a struggling new parent: Slate’s advice columnists have heard it all over the years, so our parenting advice column has been bringing back some classics from the archives.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Recently turned 71, Kurosawa is renowned for horror classics like 1997’s “Cure” and 2001’s “Pulse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The choreographer marked the nation’s semiquincentennial and his troupe’s 45th anniversary with a program at the Joyce Theater of repertory classics and a New York premiere all centered on American music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"My message to young people is this - whether you choose construction, coding or classics, or maths, manufacturing or mechanics, you'll get the skills you need and be given the respect you deserve," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
His glad-handing, varsity chumminess was totally alien and therefore suspect; then, too, he studied the classics, which are certainly harmless enough but which still provoke the raised eyebrow in some circles.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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