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It felt like it was really a character, and I don’t think at the time I was a good enough actor to say, “I can be a clown, or I can be this or that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Dave Chappelle is equally awful, content-wise, but at least he’s good at being the absolute worst, if that can be a thing for the sake of this argument.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026
This is not a prediction of whether agents will ultimately do that for more than just power users, or whether that’s a good thing, given the clear externalities at play.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Trump, however, praised Zacharia's debut, telling reporters: "I thought she was very good."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The master squeezed the wooden peg, and the veiled "women" started shouting their good wishes.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
“By February 2026, tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to goods price inflation, and without them goods prices would have fallen slightly,” New York Fed researchers wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The boom in data-center construction has also contributed to inflation by pushing up the prices of semiconductors and other goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The 39-year-old said the rise in the cost of goods has made saving money difficult.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Diesel prices have soared even more, by 67.7 percent, boosting the cost of transporting goods and threatening further spillovers to consumers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The merchants rushed to pull their own goods from the piles.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Utilities are imposing higher electricity rates and collateral requirements to identify legitimate data-center projects to better plan their own investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But I never knew I wasn’t Native, and maybe it worked out better that we don’t even know what I was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Sources who know the United boss well are adamant there is no better person to handle the turmoil, and it is at times of crisis like this that his innate calmness is a major strength.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
So, compression garments may mainly help because they make you feel better recovered.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
I don’t need to hear her say what she’s thinking, because the me that knows better is saying the same thing.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Struggling with injury, baseball’s best player is trapped in a dreadful slump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The actor was best known for his role on AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad,’ in which he played Walter White’s son and was considered the conscience of the series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Shares of Lilly, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company by market value, rallied above their 50-day moving average to mark their best level since August.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
"We don't have the best squad at the moment compared to other top teams," said Martinez.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
I tried to hold it together as best I could.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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