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Later, Kagan asked us to write a letter, five years in the hypothetical future, telling someone we love about our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
On July 13, the Supreme Court barred Flavio Bolsonaro from visiting his father until after the first round of the election, after he read out a handwritten letter from Jair Bolsonaro on social media.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
This is worth doing now, rather than through a letter to be opened later — so you can see the benefit of deeper understanding while you’re still here.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Now, I don't feel anything. It's like I'm not even human. Since you died, I'm just blank," he wrote in a letter to Roxanne, his late sister, published by Players' Tribune in June.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Joey sends her letter off to Marie Dachauer in August 1945.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The city website says people who receive letters must “submit information showing that the property is not subject to the surcharge.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
He says he received letters from Hana for a year, but never responded to them.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Simon said she had decided to speak about her diagnosis after she received letters, "kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
There is also an amazing collection of letters written primarily by Black parents to Union Army officials, asking for help freeing their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
These letters have been through the postal system.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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By 1956, hospital births were becoming more common, and midwifery textbooks were recommending that a "wrist name-tape" or "string of lettered china beads" should be attached directly to the newborn.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
In high school, she lettered in three sports.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
He lettered from 1963-65 on Kentucky’s varsity under Charlie Bradshaw after playing on the freshman squad and was a consensus first team All-America as a senior.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
At Costco’s food courts, items are pictured, oversized, on red-bordered posters with the description and price lettered below in blue on a white background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
And all around these neatly lettered words, scribbles had been added by other witches and wizards who had come to see the place where the Boy Who Lived had escaped.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Accessorizing the lock box was a button with bold white lettering screaming at me to “PUSH FOR ASSISTANCE.”
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Among them, a worn “Army of Alphabetizers” badge from Cuba’s 1961 literacy campaign, its lettering nearly faded.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The illuminated manuscript depicting the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament has been described as "the work of angels" due to the complexity of its lettering and illustrations.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Seoul’s iconic landmarks, from the Namsan Seoul Tower to a historic royal-palace gate, were illuminated with the “Arirang” lettering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
He held up the large calf-bound folio, and I saw by its gilt lettering that it was a book of anatomy by Vesalius.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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