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London-based nail artist Jess Young believes designing your nails can be an added way to help people feel "comfortable and confident" in themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We should be fighting tooth and nail to retain all of our companies,” Walker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Both dissents hit the nail on the head.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Adding in unreliable or inaccurate government data reporting is “like driving one more nail into the proverbial coffin,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
He shook the nail polish to mix the color and began to apply it to Minna’s nails with what his mother used to call his “surgeon’s hands.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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London-based nail artist Jess Young believes designing your nails can be an added way to help people feel "comfortable and confident" in themselves.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“He’s as tough as nails and he is more pissed off than anything that he was the only one that stood up to Magneto. He’s disappointed,” says Dodd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Equity may be comfortable for now — but debt is a bed of nails.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
She rushed off to have her nails varnished at her favorite salon, which was destroyed in the mall strike but has reopened in a building nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Somehow, it’s embedded under my nails, in the crease of my elbow, in the space between my lashes, and in my teeth.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Pollsters basically nailed Hong’s share of the vote: Averaged out, surveys over the past month showed her at about 41 percent; she ended up with 39 percent.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Everyone agreed that they nailed it with the coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
After years of both slight miscalculations and substantial errors, it looked to me like he finally nailed the formula.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Banton nailed Arshdeep to point to depart for 39 and Jacks fell soon after, then Bethell hit the gas, helped by Bishnoi bowling two no-balls in the 17th over.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
An oval-shaped wooden sign was nailed to the post with the name “Rio Kermit” carved into it.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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But he found a groove in the third session, second fastest by just 0.043secs and then nailing a beauty of a final lap.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Lee is known for making some bold and accurate calls, advising investors to buy stocks during pandemic lows and nailing the 2023 bull market.
From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026
Alloway praises the Philadelphia-born Pedretti for nailing Cherry’s comedic moments yet also grounding the character in a traumatic backstory — a balancing act the director knew she was capable of after watching “Hill House.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
"I think for us, it's always about nailing those specialist positions," said Erasmus.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
The fitting and nailing on of the planks was labor intensive and nerve-racking.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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