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“You don’t hide behind the fact that the fourth quarter wasn’t good enough. But I’m also not going to pretend we didn’t dominate that game through three quarters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The silencing of the press and scapegoating of desperate sailors does not hide Hegseth’s mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Without some transparency, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out, bad actors can hide “fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
When law enforcement tries to trace bribes or tax evasion, criminals can easily hide among the hundreds of thousands of legal shell companies whose owners were only using them to lower their taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I slouched even lower, praying that the shadows would hide me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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But in most of those earlier cases, presidents at least hid behind principle.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
He told NPR that returning to play Optimus Prime in these films was “like slipping into an old pair of shoes that you hid in the back of your closet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He scattered them, hid them, kept handwritten or typed versions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
As a result, she hid the condition from friends growing up and colleagues by either by suppressing the tics or releasing them when the person she was speaking with looked away.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He tried to chew and finish the chicken as he walked to the door, but it refused to go down, so he spat the wadded-up food in his hand and hid it in his pocket.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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Eventually John meets his fate by falling through a portal into an abandoned mall, then following signs directing him to a manager’s office hidden in its bowels.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Those measurements can then be used to estimate the shape and thickness of the hidden glacier.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Iran is thought to have hidden many of its munitions underground, making it difficult to estimate what it has left, and it has used the ceasefire to move a lot of its equipment around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
She has seen “The American President” and “The Prestige” 150 times each, but I’ll always push to watch some hidden gem that’s been on our list for the past decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
When the Gestapo came to the barn where the woman was hidden, not the baby but the mother began to shriek with hysteria.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The moment the sound of raucous singing had hided around the corner, he slipped out of the gate and ran in the opposite direction.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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"She's hided, and we can't find her anywhere," repeated Zaidee.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
She has never had a downright bad attack, like this one, therefore we could hide it from the servants and from Miss Annabel, but it couldn't be hided from him.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
By a friendly Dutchman guided, A Van Eloff or De Vilier, They were promptly trapped and hided, In a manner too familiar.
From Songs Of The Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
She hided my hat—Lina did; but if I'd gone home, straight home, and not gone to her house, then she couldn't have hided it.
From Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie May
Detailed observations and measurements showed that the monkeys can nevertheless bend parts of their feet enough to climb narrow vertical tree trunks while seeking food, hiding or finding places to sleep.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Mundubile, who finished second to President Hakainde Hichilema in the August 13 election, was taken into custody on Thursday after more than two weeks in hiding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Byte Spies: The FBI disrupted a China-linked hacking operation that broke into U.S. government networks and critical infrastructure, while hiding its tracks on a global network of hacked devices, cloud-computing infrastructure and even clandestine networks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She and her sister both approve of hiding the numbers of likes and restricting filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Since Mr. Smit’s work at the Beje I realized that this hole under the kitchen floor was a totally inadequate hiding place.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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