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"Obviously I don't condone stealing, but I really sympathise with any parent that finds themselves in a situation like that."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s the question that keeps millions of Americans up at night: Do I have enough saved for retirement?
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“There’s a lot of stuff, without getting to granular with it. ... He knows himself in terms of, ‘Am I able to stack back-to- back days?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"I think he describes himself as a warrior," Arteta said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Still clothed, Father and I lie on a tarp and wrap ourselves in blankets.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The medieval Cloth Hall and St. Martin’s Church were two of the most prominent monuments in Ypres, Belgium, and among World War I’s early casualties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The company taking the top spot on Gauntlet I’s leaderboard External link was Skycutter, a British startup that partnered with Ukrainian drone company SkyFall.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I don’t carry beef with people. And I’m not going to get into the history of Doc and I’s relationship right now. And I probably won’t ever. He’s fine in my book.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
In a statement read to the public inquiry examining how Letby was able to attack babies, Child I's mother said: "I believe the doctors and nursing staff should have acted earlier."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
I's the one what set him to dusting.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
The setlist is largely pulled from 2024's Eternal Sunshine album - at the expense of major hits like God Is A Woman, Problem and Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Don’t miss: Is $1 million enough for a household to retire?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Is it the main villain in One Thousand and One Nights?
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
Appeared in the August 15, 2026, print edition as 'Israel Tourism Is Slowly Recovering'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Is that why Calvin seemed so out of sorts?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“No matter what the federal government was doing, they knew that if they weren’t dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, they were going to get called to account,” Hilton said.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
The deputy chief told Boyd that Spivey’s body was towed “to make sure that every i’s dotted, t’s crossed to clear you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
“I know sometimes people feel like, why hasn’t there been more information? But again, just trying to make sure we have i’s dotted and t’s crossed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
CPAs, those folks who can add columns of 9s in their heads, have been advising MDs since the 1980s to dot their i’s, cross their t’s, and never accept IOUs.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
"Another issue is inclusivity. It's important to tackle the culture of secrecy and making sure everyone has an awareness of what's happening to their bodies and their peers and how best to support them."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
She celebrated the increase in information that is now available to people on social media, but warned it should "come with a caution".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
For a whole campaign a title-winning team's players have been working hard towards the goal of winning the league and the moment it is achieved will understandably feel like a huge success and relief.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It is a major cause of female infertility and symptoms can include irregular periods, excessive hair growth and weight gain.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
But Joey is willing to break the rules to advocate for herself and other people with leprosy.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
"So, we all started to panic; some people jumped out of windows, and some ran outside," the 31-year-old barber told AFP as he stroked his mother's leg under her hospital blanket.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"I would be lying if we're still not stinging from when we did that."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He needs to show us that he can eat and be an otter before we can let him go,” Pedrioli said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“It searches much faster than we can across many more spaces,” said Peng, who is director of advanced diagnostics and therapeutics at the New York Center for Rare Diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Earl did tell you that we were dating, didn’t he?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“I took off on a horse at 11 years old when my daddy bought me my first one,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
My first attempt at playing prime minister in No 10: Full Confidence hasn't left me considering a Westminster career.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"For me personally, it's because in my teens, her music was quite prolific. For me it was her most iconic period, in the 1980s."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Moore said: "There's probably about 60 other people who are normally here by the side of me every day asking, 'can we go?'."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
For me, Father has always been the same.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"The four of us -- my husband, our two children, and I were on the bed," when the 7.7-magnitude rattler stuck just north of Flores island at around 5.30 am on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Instead of worrying about us, Spain should worry about Morocco: that's where the problems are coming from, certainly not from our controls."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He needs to show us that he can eat and be an otter before we can let him go,” Pedrioli said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“If we can get more units out, they’re asking us to give them more,” Caterpillar Chief Executive Joe Creed said of data centers during the company’s second-quarter earnings call with analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
A huge man on a motorcycle pulls alongside us, waiting for the light to turn green.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
While meeting his family, while sipping wine in front of the Eiffel Tower, while feeling the bend of his body curl into mine at night, I wondered where my dress was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The moral victory is already mine," Binface told AFP at the counting centre early Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Heisenberg: Wilson is a former FPL favourite of mine, but I cannot see him getting many minutes for Brentford with Igor Thiago leading the line.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Until 2024, Donald Swartz was the chief executive of American Rare Earths, which plans to mine the critical minerals in Wyoming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She shifts in her seat, but her eyes don’t leave mine.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"The four of us -- my husband, our two children, and I were on the bed," when the 7.7-magnitude rattler stuck just north of Flores island at around 5.30 am on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I am praying my flight doesn’t get cancelled,” the traveler wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I took off on a horse at 11 years old when my daddy bought me my first one,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"The hardest part is not fearing for my own safety, but fearing for my children and family," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hard soil, sometimes rocks, pebbles dig into my back.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"It's a struggle affording everything for baby and me, sometimes we have to ask for help even when we don't want to, but we will when it comes to our babies," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"The four of us -- my husband, our two children, and I were on the bed," when the 7.7-magnitude rattler stuck just north of Flores island at around 5.30 am on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away,” the Carradine family said in a statement following the actor’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
"I actually think that what we are seeing is because our bodies are not adapting," Dr Bierwirth said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
“My pa was right. This was our journey to make.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Someone who joined us in sharing our heartbreak on social media when Kobe Bryant died in 2020, calling him “a friend and a fan of ours, full of life and taken from us too soon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The bakery said: "Every shop that reopens means jobs restored, a unit back in use and footfall returning to the high street, which we believe serves everyone's interests: ours, theirs and the wider local economy's."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Don't you dare think the Australian fruits and ours are the same. Ignorance is pathetic," said one social media comment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
As much as we might wish otherwise, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift are not like us, and we cannot measure their autonomy and power on the same scale as ours.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
At first I worried that they might belong to somebody, but then I remembered that the farm is ours, so these flowers must belong to us too.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
