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"A lot of things can happen, so I'm not going to be able to share with you my musings."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Some prefer to focus instead on rooting out wasteful government spending or on improving the lot of the less well-off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
And no one disputes that a free green space is an improvement on an asphalt lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s impossible to watch one, let alone all three, without realizing that Schoenbrun has a lot on their mind, sometimes too much for a single film to bear.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
I had to repeat myself, because someone was trying out Morse code with their car horn in the parking lot.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Plus, scavenging bankruptcies for AI training data, the price of large residential lots and the public’s trust in the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As fans watched 'chess-like' matches, successful coaches looked to keep lots of the ball, setting their team up in predictable and symmetrical shapes with fixed player roles, such as touchline wingers or inverted full-backs.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Some runners told the outlet they parked in lots designated by Binational Race personnel but still had their cars towed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
There should be lots of running against Glendale, which has its own top running back in Arman Papazyan, who has rushed for nearly 1,500 yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
To me, finishing eighth grade with the second-highest GPA felt like a failure, even though lots of people told me it shouldn’t.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
We've lotted on ye a good deal, here to the village; more maybe than you thought on.
From Nautilus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
So we lotted out the land, of which there is enough for hundreds, and began to build rude houses.
From Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard
The old estate, of about 150 acres, was lotted out for building in 1839, the sale being then conducted by Messrs. E. and C. Robbins, August 19.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie
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
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