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[ik-spres] / ɪkˈsprɛs /






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The foreign emoluments clause prohibits all federal officials from accepting gifts of valuables, office, or title from any foreign country without express congressional consent.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Having a non-native English speaker in charge of a world capital such as L.A. — and one who wants to express herself in the city’s second tongue — wouldn’t just be symbolic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Another 1.8 million voters who had cast blank or invalid ballots in the first round, often used by Brazilians to express dissatisfaction with the candidates, chose one in the runoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

His early remarks led to all of his support acts to drop out of the tour in solidarity with Macklemore, and fans to express frustration.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

And so, on our way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I taught Calista everything there was to know about New York—the streets and the avenues, express subways, bus stops.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

She expresses profound love for the two children she has while regretting that she was forced to become a mother before she could give those children the life she believed they deserved.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mr. Marriott expresses concern about the end of reading, but a more accurate understanding is that reading changes over time, and students and others need to be shown how to read different kinds of texts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

A second population expresses a gene called Gbx2 and develops into the hindbrain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Like all the other animals, he expresses himself through bleats, grunts and hugely dynamic facial expressions.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

It seems to me to be at odds with a number of passages in which Wittgenstein expresses a quite different view of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

CoreWeave's CEO Mike Intrator has said that the market is acting "irrationally" and has expressed confidence in its business model.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Europe has also expressed concern about "unsafe" non-EU products such as toys that violate the bloc's rules arriving via Chinese e-commerce platforms.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

He had often expressed concern about losing control to activist shareholders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Lawmakers from both parties also expressed support, including Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Postmodernists often assume that because facts are expressed in language they are inherently contestable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But despite expressing concerns about his tyre making it, he managed to hold on ahead of the 2025 world champion.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

"The vast majority of arrests -- 320 -- were for expressing support for a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act."

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“We’re expressing a specific vulnerability in consumer credit through a stock already showing technical weakness, with a defined capital commitment and more than $3 of profit potential for every $1 risked,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

On released a statement noting Mbappé’s apology while expressing “deep respect” for the country’s people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

From our very first conversation, he’d shown me that he wasn’t self-conscious about expressing fear or weakness and that he valued being truthful.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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