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“The principle here is quite simple: Your glasses should not know my name,” Cody Venzke, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a news release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Its all about convenience and this allows me to create something from scratch, with fresh ingredients that I can give my family, and I know my seven-year-old will really enjoy this," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I don't know if that makes me sound very mean or very generous, but I feel that's kind of an affordable level," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I don’t know if there’s a perfect answer, but I do know the salary cap would not be a fix-all for parity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Phineas is a stranger in the city, and few outside his family circle know anything about his curious past.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
A World Cup prediction: As Jeremy Stahl has watched this tournament progress, he’s become convinced that he knows how it will end.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
He knows politicians use him "like tissue paper", but is still grateful for the cash.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Who knows what might have happened after that?
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
So did everyone else he knows, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
‘Who knows? People were frightened, and when people are frightened, rumor becomes truth.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Martha woke up and she couldn't lift her head off the pillow, she said she knew right away that she had polio, because she heard so much about it," McVey said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Andriesz suspected there was yet more to find in the Epstein files that could back up his claims - if only people knew where to look in the 3.5 million pages of documents.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I never knew I wanted to work in this. I don’t care about being a great film director, I never did,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
“The thing about Lindsey, I always knew in his heart where he wanted to go, but he was a very astute politician to get there,” McCaul said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I knew I could count on you, Lexie. I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Cultivated for millennia, Armenia's famed apricots were known to ancient Romans as the "Armenian apple."
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
In parliament, he represented a constituency now known as Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa from 1997 until 2010, when he resigned from the House of Commons.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Tolo said she also learned she has polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, formerly known as PCOS, and adenomyosis, where the uterine lining grows into the organ’s muscle wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Forever more, she was known as ‘Little Britches’.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
But they likely discount the data already, knowing there’s something off with the numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I feel like I’m continuing to get better at knowing where to go with two strikes, knowing where to go versus a certain hitter with two strikes and just kind of reading the game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The film’s brilliance comes from Wain and Marino knowing how to pummel the viewer with jokes while measuring each punchline’s individual weight.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Financial independence is controlling your own future,” said Greg Welborn, an adviser in Pasadena, Calif. “It’s knowing if you lost your income, how you’d recover.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
“You’re going farther west,” I say, knowing it’s true.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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