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He can’t recall when or from whom he first heard the phrase, but ever since, the Five Ps have stuck with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Xi Jinping sat across from President Trump in Beijing in May, he reached for a borrowed phrase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

That phrase — “a sense of ownership” — seems almost paradoxical for an institution whose entire premise is that you do not need to own the things you want to use.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Experts tell us making your child feel loved comes from more than just a simple turn of phrase.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Perhaps the right way to phrase this sensation would be to say, I feel it.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

There’s a compelling argument regardless that even when these phrases fall out of favor, the trend of men paying more attention to themselves will remain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

By zeroing in on specifics, Mr. Ross arrives at many phrases and couplets that are appearing in a song for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Then she adds short phrases: "Won't break. Can't Shake. Deep breaths…. Tight chest. Life. Death. Rewind."

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Oh, gracious! What shall I say?” cried Sallie, as Fred ended his rigmarole, in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

"We told you: keep your word or pay the price," is how Iran's lead negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf recently phrased it on social media, quoting the agreement.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Pascal Confavreux, a ministry spokesman, phrased it more diplomatically: “We use irony and humor to deliver a punch and create deterrence by exposing the absurdity of the claims made by those who attack us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

“Rather than focusing on the thoughtful responses of Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, and Andrew Garfield, the discussion continues solely on how I should have phrased the question,” Polidoro wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish, “The cheeses meld together to form the most delicious, frico-laced roasted and blistered fennel imaginable.”

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Using the descriptive phrasing that was common then among older people, she said, “That is the prettiest little girl I have ever seen.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Her account begins with a description of the Ithacan king as “a complicated man” who, in strikingly passive phrasing, “wandered and was lost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Clare pressed a paw into his one good eye, fighting to recall the exact phrasing Nine had used.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman