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Savory sounded more like Monday, so I did what I think of as reverse-shopping: opened the refrigerator and started looking for ingredients that wanted to know each other.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I also had a wonderful card from a lady in Essex, who I don't know, who just sent me a beautiful message of support."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“We’ve got a bigger problem, which is this is everywhere. The world needs to know this is dangerous, and it’s going to get worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
As far as we know, early humans had not yet reached the continent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The officials ask strange questions like “Do you know how to carry a canteen?” or “Have you ever worn a saber?”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“I think every single person that touches any of my projects knows that I really care about people feeling good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Tad Devine, who served as a top strategist for mainstream Democrats for decades before joining Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid, knows the mechanisms inside and out.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Cramer has been going to conferences related to extraterrestrial matters for years, and he knows that his audiences have always been “outside the mainstream.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mr. Bessent knows we need new buyers of Treasurys and thinks stablecoins are the answer—a long-overdue digital dollar that can move between holders in milliseconds for cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
He isn’t supposed to be in Manila in the first place, and who knows how much longer he’ll have to be there?
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
I knew my application wouldn’t be approved because my credit reports were frozen.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Bass: There was no reason for me to seek an endorsement from an organization that I knew was not going to endorse me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
But even as LSU stormed back to tie the game, Kiffin knew he was playing with fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I knew taking you to the Jump house could backfire,” she says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Clavicular is known for his role in an online movement called "looksmaxxing", centred on maximising physical attractiveness.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The bulk of the settlement—DoorDash’s $83 million payment—concerns the law’s requirement that drivers are paid for time spent on the app between deliveries, known as “on-call time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Lapointe's inquiry helped prompt a group of French researchers to identify the lake area as the center of a potential 11th known impact structure in Quebec at a 2024 meeting of the Meteoritical Society.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Herbert “Skip” Cole, a UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus and African art scholar, has known Wolfe since they worked on a 1981 exhibition of Kenyan art at the university.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
I had done all of this—I had known the word to begin with— because Luc L’Enfant taught it to me.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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“In the modern world, knowing how to build and ship things is even more important than it’s ever been.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“That’s history, you know? I am very adamant about players coming in and knowing their history,” Ogwumike said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Because only Abbott knew that number, Schlamminger could analyze the experiment without knowing the true value of big G his team was producing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
I stared, knowing she could find her way home easily.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Go up to the house,” Liam said, knowing what I was thinking.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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