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Investors will get a peek at how the company is doing when it releases its earnings report on Oct.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
“We’re trying to get the arms to look good for TV on Saturday,” Sumrall said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I blurted out: “Well, the dog is in the car, so I’ll get going now. But it was so nice to meet you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Clavicular himself has been accusing the girl of fabricating her claims to get revenge for being rejected by him, an accusation echoed online by many of his fans.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Dad pointing out that Aunt J doesn’t get home on Mondays until after ten is pointless.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
“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
Plus, the U.N. debates on who gets a say on AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘She lives alone’: My mother-in-law, 86, gets $1,300 in Social Security.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Citizens who aren’t likely to notice when their local newspaper becomes a bit more bare-bones, or that the already byzantine healthcare system becomes slightly harder to navigate, will definitely notice when their lunch gets worse.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
The X-plane philosophy is to "minimise goals, the more goals you have the more expensive it gets."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I turn sixteen on my actual birthday, and Mom gets me the new swimsuit and the brown calf-high boots I wanted.
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
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
Protagonist also got FDA approval last month for a second drug, Mimrylo, to treat a rare blood cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I have got a pretty mad schedule," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Production on Season 3 of “Wednesday” officially got underway near Dublin earlier this year, with Ortega returning as the morbidly witty Wednesday Addams.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
“We’ve got a good rotation ... keeping guys fresh and right now I’m liking it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I got to see and feel the energy that came with the start of a movement, the start of national change.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
When the ratio falls or rises to extreme levels, it can work well as a contrarian indicator, because it indicates that the bearish or bullish trades may have gotten too crowded.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I had gotten so used to being stone broke, I literally didn’t know what I was missing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"The staff there were able to finally tell us how bad it had gotten."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Anna has instead been able to see how bad it’s gotten: Her aunt is so certain of the medbeds’ imminent arrival that she won’t seek medical help for a broken arm.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Do you realize that without that letter, we never would have gotten stuck in this stupid partner program?”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The United Nations' top official for refugees warned on Friday that conditions for long-displaced people in Western Sahara were getting worse and that their humanitarian needs were starkly underfunded.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Anthropic is getting warrants — derivatives allowing but not requiring it to buy stock at a future date — as part of the deal.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The public image of AI isn’t getting any help from local restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“If they destroy the Lakers, guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start the proletariat revolution. I think that the closest we’re getting to class consciousness is fast food and sports teams.”
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
She was getting awful hard to live with.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
