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The paper's front page also includes a nod to the upcoming fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The installation was meant to challenge Muslim stereotypes while making a subversive nod to the bread as a famous French symbol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Hence the report’s nod to the need for change, though it doesn’t propose reforms that would break the campus culture of conformity and entitlement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
You didn’t nod your head and think, “That sounds smart,” when they told you diversification is a sound strategy?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
I nod, but Avery has a strange look on her face.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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The name also nods to the torque for which EVs are known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There are also nods to the original throughout, with bubbling family tension, dark romantic "witchcore" fashion and the iconic midnight margaritas.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But it also nods to what both “Transamerica” and “Travelin’ Thru” do so well, suggesting that there are various interpretations for everything in life.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
I’ve loved the nods from people also wearing Knicks gear on their morning coffee runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Jonah nods on cue, and bile bubbles up my throat.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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He also nodded to their overlapping political circles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
When asked if the area had been let down by police, he nodded.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
He smiled and nodded in thanks after a supporter in the public gallery shouted "hang in there!"
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Netanyahu and his wife, sitting in the audience, nodded along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
I nodded and stayed close behind him as he shouldered his way through the crowd, our progress slowed by the rows of sewing equipment that had been shoved to the floor.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Wong, dressed in a dark blue shirt, was seen smiling and nodding in response from the dock.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lavie appeared in a jailhouse-yellow shirt and blue pants and looked distressed throughout the hearing, nodding and gesturing to friends at times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Madonna looks at a world where “no one wants to go outside,” nodding at the ways the COVID-19 pandemic broadly increased our isolation and made people more fearful of reality and each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
“We have been the victims of vandalism,” Roxana Girand-Spitzer, president and chief executive, said in a statement nodding to the urbex trend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He stood in the middle, turning, nodding, smiling.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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