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Like I said, I would see how much others are selling this ticket for and match that price or sell it for a bit less, just to ensure you get at least some money back.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
“You have to get out and vote,” Trump said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"We have been trying many grands prix to get pole, sometimes a bit closer than others. But to finally get it from where we started the season, pretty incredible."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
They figured French politics wouldn’t get much rockier in the near term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
We wait for her to pass before we get back to screaming—in a low whisper.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Then he says, ‘We must be keerful, For the cider’s gittin low.’
From Time ● Oct. 15, 2015
When the butchering is over Then the farmer feels so-so; But he’s always sort of worried, Fears the cider’s gittin low.
From Time ● Oct. 15, 2015
Which, as she was born in the Bronx, is pronounced "We gittin they!"
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
“Hush, now. Luster gone to git de surrey en take you to de graveyard. We aint gwine risk gittin yo cap,” she said.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Listen to me, Jeth; you’re gittin to be a sizable boy. There’s goin’ to be a lot of things in the years ahead that you’ll have to stand.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Sometimes you are sitting in a dark theater with strangers and the right note gets struck, and you hear it with your ears but you feel it somewhere else entirely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
When a baby is born, or your daughter gets married, do you read a piece of legislation to commemorate the occasion or do you quote a poem, or dedicate a song?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"He gets to 'Round yon virgin' and he stops talking," Graczyk told BBC News.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
“There’s no pill, there’s no surgery that gets you sculpted biceps,” Petrzela said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
We enter, and the first thing that gets my attention, as always anywhere, is the music playing—Chopin, Nocturne Op.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The 37-year-old star appeared onstage wearing a traditional Korean hat known as a "gat", featured in Netflix's animated megahit "KPop Demon Hunters".
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
They’re often depicted in traditional black hanbok and tall gat hats, which explains the Saja Boys’ costuming later in the movie.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
In this Bonnie & Clyde, female ambition is more dangerous than a loaded gat.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2013
As Bogart aged, he lost his defiance, leaving Warner Brothers for Columbia and trading his gat for a bow tie.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
"Zour steid was auld, and ze hae gat mair, Edward, Edward: Zour steid was auld, and ze hae gat mair, Sum other dule ze drie O."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
“You try to make sure that you’ve got your own backyard covered as well as possible. If not, there’s always a story.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Flight tracking data show the helicopter left Catalina’s Pebbly Beach heliport at about 7:46 p.m. and got about 175 feet above sea level about eight seconds into its flight before rapidly descending.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Several automakers in recent years ditched their robot-car plans when things got tough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“We need Baywatch Avalon by boat. We’ve got a helicopter with potentially three people on board. ... We have people screaming for help.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
All I know is that he’s going for a drive, which he never does unless he’s got serious things on his mind.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Investors in funds holding private assets have gotten stuck, unable to withdraw their money when they wanted to, over and over and over again in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
For 14 years, I have gotten up every morning and gone to work while she has been free to pursue whatever interested her.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
And if she had gotten all the lifts and tucks we expect of a TV star, we’d be criticizing her for that too.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
But the City Council just hasn’t quite gotten to it yet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Somehow, we had gotten caught out in the worst part of the weather.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, efforts to address the safety of the flight deck have largely focused on threats from outside getting in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I’m getting a lot of emails from people saying that ‘we’re abandoning Metrolink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The only point we’d like to make about this is that, however much flak Schmitt is getting for this—and it’s quite a bit—it’s not enough.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
His fellow traitors clearly wanted to be supportive, but things were getting dicey.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mutti took a long breath and said, “You didn’t finish your soup, Peter. It will be getting cold. Eat, eat.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
