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“Nobody knows whether this selloff is going to get worse before it gets better,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at Jones Trading.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
When she began her mayoral campaign in February, Raman said the Los Angeles Police Department — which then had 8,700 officers — should not get any smaller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“I had some times when I thought, ‘What am I doing wrong, that I’m not able to get that break?’” said Eck, now 49.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
This is not a win we get to keep cleanly.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Besides, how will she get information if she doesn’t get answers?
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
Then he says, ‘We must be keerful, For 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
“Black Doves” gets away with murder, so to speak, because of its casting, its acting, its all-but-furious narrative pace and the relationships portrayed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The transaction gets classified as an all-cash deal.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
"As he gets used to something, he becomes more emboldened by it," Furphy said.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
This organization is especially important because enamel gets its exceptional hardness and durability from the precise arrangement of its mineral crystals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Zavi gets the math award, and Nikhil gets Spanish.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
So they adjetated for a line down the valley as far as Keighley, and after abaht p. 89a hundred meetings they gat an Act passed for it i Parlement.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
“The bureaucracy looks at elected officials like, ‘I was here before you got here, and I’ll be here long after you leave.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
They tried city departments and got no help, and they tried Raman’s office repeatedly, with the same result.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Bloom Energy shares got swept up in the technology sector’s sharp selloff Thursday, as investors fretted that the data-center buildout was at risk of stalling in the aftermath of the U.S. midterm elections.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Gays are simply the part of the community that got powerful enough to be left alone.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
She smiles, gives me two thumbs-ups and a look that says, you got this.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
It is that flippancy that has minted Piker an ardent following, and also gotten him into trouble.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Sitting one row behind famous fans has gotten him just as much attention, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Tinglong Dai, a business professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that it’s gotten harder for websites to keep up with rapid changes in how AI searches the internet for information.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
"I want to help people navigate the voting, which has gotten more and more complicated," said the septuagenarian, who is serving as an election observer for the first time.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“If everything was peachy, we’d never have gotten the you know what that landed us in this stupid program in the first place.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Health assurance is getting more expensive, and some Americans may face an uncomfortable choice: to pay more for coverage or go without.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Voters who find the continued cultural swirl around this issue icky nonetheless may take comfort that their legislature already is getting the matter under control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“And in order to do that, they needed to dismiss the case, and so they reached out about getting this agreement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
O'Neill said she was getting "impatient" with the government and that she would take no lectures from it about managing finances.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
My first major step was getting into the Ross Academy.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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