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"But I was happy to know I wasn't crazy. Something had happened that day."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It was a moment for me where, you know what, there's no halfway in this," Teng told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
I know plenty of you forking over thousands for business class do it solely for the solitude, space and sleep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Polling in primary elections can be particularly difficult, because it can be hard to know who will actually show up on election day, said Christian Grose, a USC political science professor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Accident victims are often too shaken to know what happened, so Dr. Williams turns to Phineas's workmen for the story, but Phineas insists on speaking for himself.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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But with only a single photograph she knows she can't be sure.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Mourinho knows that anything less than a league title will be considered a failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Gen knows the exact measurements of her salad order and is strictly forbidden from eating any bread.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Comedian Kelsey Cook knows it all too well, both as a stand-up and a world champion foosball player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Joey has no idea yet how influential doctors will become in her life, but she knows this doctor is important to her.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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I knew it was time to move on to something else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Helen Richardson-Walsh knew Olympic gold was theirs while observing the Dutch players' behaviour in the tunnel before the game.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are expected to question Bejar about Meta's practices around safety and growth, and whether the company publicly misrepresented what it knew, according to a court document.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
As a veteran Boeing worker says, “If you knew what a screwdriver was you were hired.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
She knew those things didn’t matter to me, but she also knew I was desperate for a distraction.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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In the coming season, Carson also revealed that she will hit the dance floor with comedian Guillermo Rodriguez, the Mexican talk show personality best known as a sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Traditionally known for his strike-zone control, Tucker’s chase rate has been up this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
LFB said the cause of the fire was not yet known, but firefighters tackled a blaze at the same facility in June.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the run-up to the state funeral Tuesday for the man known as “Boss Zhu,” who died last week at age 97, security tightened across Beijing and elsewhere in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Jesuits are widely known for their focus on social justice and human rights, as well as a devotion to theology, missionary work, and education.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"It's an open wound. It doesn't heal. They have no rest not even knowing if their relative is dead or alive," she tells us.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“For me, the biggest success is that I finished my career knowing that I couldn’t give much more,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I gave a knowing nod to the guy at the counter, as if to say: This isn’t a big deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Especially knowing full well that all that interrogation could ever reveal was a bottomless shame that nobody—and certainly not themselves—could atone for?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nor has he ever seen a great black-backed gull face to face, which keeps him on continuous guard should he find himself in close proximity with his archenemy without knowing it.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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