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His teenage daughter joined the crew, holding on for dear life as the roaring watercraft stood up on its tail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
I have no children, and I’ve always planned for whatever I leave to go to my brother, a dear friend and a couple of charities I care about.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Sajid Javid said Archer had been a "dear friend", while Sir Jeremy Hunt said Archer had "showed enormous kindness with his advice about how to become a writer".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“They’re coming after one of the things that’s dear to my heart, which are the kids and this program that I’ve been working on for the past two years,” Valladares declared in an Instagram post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
“We would be pleased to care for dear Flora in your absence,” Aunt Kitty was telling Mrs. Maroney when I came back in from the yard.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
“We didn’t keep that,” she said, “but I loved learning what Lydia would do if she could. ‘Eyes forward dears, we are not sitting comfortably in a class room.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
I would think to myself, Oh, my dears, if you could only see who you are speaking to and how hard they work.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2024
Poor dears, that must have been so unspeakably horrid for them.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2018
By ingesting the chirpy little dears, Bergenkind seeks to internalize the little guys’ sunny joyfulness.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016
“Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Meanwhile, what got cheaper diverged sharply from what got dearer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But the money would not go far, he said, as costs have gone up and "everything has gone dearer".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the Hungarian countryside, activism often comes at a price, some dearer than others, as campaigners in Jaszfenyszaru can attest.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
“The freedom I had before the money was paid was dearer to me,” Ms. Jacobs wrote.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
He promised to write often, but I longed for dearer words from him.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"It is truly my dearest wish that this opens the way for other women who might not have dared until now," the 59-year-old, who lives in Anglet in southwestern France, said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Hayden was one of my dearest and closest friends that I loved and cared about for the last 8 years,” Zach said in his statement to TMZ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
It’s a recipe that’s meant to be shared and enjoyed with your dearest loved ones.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Two of my dearest friends travel under ethnically neutral names that their parents changed from obviously Jewish ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Seeing his bed now made a snare, he feigned a journey to the trim stronghold of Lemnos, the dearest of earth’s towns to him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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