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Earlier, the troops had flown a drone over the area to get a better look at the terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
After managing to untangle him, Lee said it was a struggle to get him back to the surface as he was "much bigger than me".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
When people get attached to their AI agents, they’re also more likely to follow their suggestions, which can lead to them spending more money on the services and products that agents endorse, Yim said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
But the schedule doesn’t get any easier soon for the Chargers, whose next games are against Denver, Kansas City, the Rams, Houston and Baltimore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I know, right? But it doesn’t matter how long it takes; I’m in no hurry to get it all done right now.”
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
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
If one node gets hit, the others pick up the slack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
This coming week, as the new term of the highest court in the U.S. gets under way, thousands of petitions will vie for the justices’ consideration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"He gets to 'Round yon virgin' and he stops talking," Graczyk told BBC News.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
I always get the fries with extra ketchup and an iced tea; Zara gets the double-loaded poutine with a diet Coke.
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
Now King David was old, and stricken in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Robert Cooper
Now 29 and an A.I. executive at Meta, Wang’s got a new look.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
But later that night she said she got a call from Brain: "He was speaking in a gentle voice and asked if I could put him to bed."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Jobs are not as easy to find for young graduates or people who just got laid off.
From MarketWatch ● 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
The farther away they got, the colder I felt inside.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
They predict a short-term hit to the housing market as many mortgages rely on two incomes and housing has gotten more expensive relative to salaries, especially for buyers already stretched financially thin.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
A spokesperson for Raman’s campaign said Cheng is paid for work he does for the campaign, not for posts on his personal social media account, and that it had gotten guidance from L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“We do it with our older populations but I have also gotten it pulled into clinics in our neurological population,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
The closest she would come to speaking about it, enough to remind me of what had gotten me into this mess.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Some farmers reported difficulty getting hold of the vaccine this year as demand rose suddenly as cases were reported in England.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Leveraging cuteness to sell products isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — just ask the toy industry, which thrives on getting kids and young adults invested in collecting new cute or cuddly products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Our columnist Ben Cohen sat down with co-founder Caspar Coppetti to find out how On plans to keep getting bigger without getting cheaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I’m sure nonalcoholic is getting better, but I’m not at the point where I have to worry about that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Her and Mom’s constant reminders to “just tell him already” are getting on my last nerve.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
