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“With a lot of players, when they’re not feeling well physically it adds to the toll mentally and emotionally,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The court of appeal verdict made a lot of sense.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“There will be a lot of people in the streets,” said Tshilidzi Sikhwivhilu, local chairman of the National Union of Mineworkers, the biggest union at Venetia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
"We have sent a lot of relief material and right now our team is loading some materials for the hospital in the area," drone operator Avaya Pokharel told AFP in Nuwakot.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Dogs are wonderful, but they require a lot of our time. Could it be that the puppy’s taking too much of your time?”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
She always aspired to have lots of kids, her own mother testified, and even her career, as a labor and delivery nurse, was centered around bringing children into the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
There are huge discounts—$30,000 and up—on lots of lightly used electric vehicles coming off lease.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
“For decades, people have been asking why public agencies can’t buy some of these lots in eastern Malibu, but historically, it’s been a wall of houses,” Moddelmog said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rabinovitz said roughly 40 beach lots have sold since 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I had lots of beginnings about how I could be the only one to really save Courtney.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
He expected she would, sure as shootin'; lotted on it, they say.
From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
They was so bewildered like, 'count of not finding Boone and everything bein' so dif'runt from what they lotted on, that they was well-nigh daft.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
I don't deny I lotted on her before she was took away, but I never want to think about her again; so you needn't come nor send.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie
Vocabulary lists containing lot
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