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“I’m going to get myself ready for any situation,” he said through interpreter Yoshihiro Sonoda this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
He caught his flights but said he was worried about being able to get back on Sunday after the Thursday attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“We’re all kind of in the prime of our careers, and we’re all evolving and continuing to get better and grow,” Snell said last weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
"I didn't burn my dress," she laughs, "but I did get into a bathtub with it for a photoshoot right after I left my ex-husband, which really ruined it!"
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Hey,” he says to two men drawing close, “this little man thinks he’s going to get him some land.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
They’re attempting a similar balancing act with the corporate name, which remains Beyond Meat Inc. but now gets supplemented in press releases and earnings with the note, “otherwise known as Beyond The Plant Protein Company.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The bond between Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves is as real as it gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
What I will say is that the sooner it gets sorted, for everyone's benefit, is essential.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
However, investors may be more focused on the chance French billionaire Xavier Niel will lead a turnaround if he gets a seat on board, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
We start the interview, and the more we talk, the easier it gets.
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
Sussy’s second defining feature is his love of hats, namely a tall, jaunty gat, similar to the ones that the Saja Boys wear in the Underworld and in their performance of “Your Idol.”
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 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
Up than spak the nut-browne bride, She spak wi' meikle spite;90 "And whair gat ye that rose-water, That does mak yee sae white?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Many made massive bets on popular tech names such as Tesla, Alphabet or Palantir—and, as the artificial-intelligence rally blew past record after record, got richer than they ever imagined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
As soon as he showed his passport at check-in at the resort, the local carabinieri got an automatic alert.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Before I got married to Mick - we'd already been together seven years, had two children - I put on a wedding dress every day until he agreed that we get married," she revealed.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He tried calling the elections office the day he got the mailer, but it was a weekend and it was closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
We shake hands, and then he turns to Grandma and says, “I see she got your good looks.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The cost of raising a family has gotten significantly more expensive over the last decade, rising faster than wages.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Malibu house is “good to help me relax, which I’ve gotten better with over the years,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"We're the best state in America," he said before acknowledging: "But success has gotten expensive."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” has gotten the special deluxe treatment, with a bevy of new editions on CD, vinyl and Blu-ray and a museum show’s worth of expertly curated material released Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We couldn’t play a real ball game, and we hadn’t gotten to Four-Cornered Cat yet.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
For Dr Chris Tennyson, a delay in getting information about his birth father's health could have put his life at risk.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He says a lack of understanding of how to support adopted adults resulted in the delay in him getting tested.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He says he has never seen it and that the harder problem is getting the AI supervisors to be less skeptical of the agents’ behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
An ultra-online 20-something, she was a front row witness to Gamergate, yet somehow she’s shocked to overhear about middle-school girls getting bullied on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Son, I’ve seen you confused before, many a time, but never more than now. If your sister’s getting intolerable, why wouldn’t you want Eugene Hammond to have her?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
