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"We'd be fools to think that we'd just go and play like we did in the 'Champ' every week when we dominated a lot of games."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I think a lot of people thought China was very, very vulnerable to oil supply disruptions. It’s not.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
“It would take a lot of things to go wrong for this to really backfire on Nvidia,” he added of the financing arrangement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
But so far, I’m having a lot of fun.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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
"I'm the Book Lady to lots of kids, and I take great pride in that," she once said in an interview with NBC's Boston affiliate.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
With big homes that can hold lots of kids, “the suburbs are like the physical manifestation of that.”
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The new chancellor, John Healey, has choices to make - with lots of calls for help but with limited room for manoeuvre in the public finances.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Centennial has an offense that’s tough to stop with quarterback Jaden Jefferson, receiver Quentin Hale and lots of running backs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Perhaps her own mother had wanted lots of things that Star had never guessed.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
It is thus settled by lottery that Tannappa and his under-share-holders are to cultivate the land of the principal share lotted under No. 1.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
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
So, or since, the Black Stone had wandered into an auction, for the lotted paper was still on it.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
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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