fair
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There’s been a lot of that going around, to be fair.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Stetson did what he could,’” McVay said, “I think it is important to be able to get a fair opportunity for those guys to run the offense with enough snaps.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Rheinmetall has been making ammo since before World War I, and presumably its factories produced their fair share of the shells still lurking in Germany’s soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"It's not fair to the families who are Palestinian, who own their homes, who have a right to raise their families without fear," said Huckabee, who before becoming ambassador had rejected the term Palestinian.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
It wouldn’t be fair to call Olaf dumb—dogs don’t measure those things like people—but even in the dog world he would not be known as a whip.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Calendar integration is one way that productivity trackers have gotten more advanced and, ostensibly, fairer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Manas said NHS England had "never actively managed" waiting lists, and "seldom" tried to make it fairer.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
And Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth described them as "a milestone in delivering stronger protections and a fairer safety net for gig economy workers".
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
A standardized system of weights and measures used throughout the region may have supported fairer trade as well.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The fairest answer is that he was partly right, for reasons he did not fully understand, and he exaggerated the promise.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
It identifies every aircraft that is equipped with it, which is why it is the fairest way to prevent private planes from evading landing fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
On an index level, free cash flow does the fairest job of that now, and it says that prices are high.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
“We are turning our backs upon the fairest dream of civilization and are about to consign it to the dust,” Barrows read.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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