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“You don’t want people to get hurt,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
"Our results show that as discussions around proportional representation in the UK get more attention, there is no such thing as a 'perfect' system," said Klausen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Fans always get excited when the transfer window comes around.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“The more risk there is of fraud, the more Mastercard gets used, and they get paid for that.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
I get up every day and play for an hour before school.
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
“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
“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
“The more risk there is of fraud, the more Mastercard gets used, and they get paid for that.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
"When it suddenly gets so expensive, customers have a psychological barrier," Tam told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
"If someone gets an award at an employment tribunal then there are systems in place to help them enforce it if necessary," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
With the “Ridge Route Preservation Organization” sticker on her truck, she sometimes gets waved down by people who’ve gotten lost and ask, “Where are we?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The lump in my throat gets thick again when I think about him, and I try to swallow it away.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
Lang stood she at her true love's door, And lang tirl'd at the pin; At length up gat his fause mother,35 Says, "Wha's that wad be in?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
When Clark told her no, things got heated before he ended the call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
"Everybody got their phone at that time instead of helping me or helping that guy to take the situation out. Everybody was just filming us," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Though this focus sometimes led critics to allege that Cook was the wrong man for the job, in each case, he got the last laugh.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
She also has a large leg tattoo that reads “dream until it’s your reality” that she got when she was 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
“If you’ve got experience, you need to share it with me.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
How has this problem gotten worse over time?
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Salon asked if he had one favorite thing that he’d gotten to do because he was Lenny Kaye.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Jones: I think we’ll see more diseases start coming back that we thought we had gotten rid of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Meta also has gotten creative about keeping billions of dollars of borrowing off its balance sheet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Like when I’d gotten my braid cut off, a weight I hadn’t realized was there fell away.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
That was when they discovered another hurdle to getting medical bills paid for on-the-job injuries in North Dakota: There are just two lawyers left in the state who will represent injured workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“I’m honored to learn from someone like her; like, getting the chance to be around an athlete like that is amazing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Agent 47 booked Natland's one way ticket to Manchester Airport, and helped him through the process of getting an emergency passport.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“AI is getting really good at this stuff,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
I want to tell him he doesn’t have to wait, but I don’t because it’s a lie, and I’m getting tired of convincing myself to believe lies I don’t believe.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
