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Olsen: You’ve often mentioned in the past, it’s a phrase I’m very taken with, “stretching culture,” expanding the idea of what’s possible.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
This time it was a more blunt, less family-friendly phrase that drove her "go for it" mentality.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
In his view, “no phrase could have been more radical, more momentous.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But so much of American public discourse, over the last decade or so, has involved refusing to “observe the observable,” in Joan Didion’s famous phrase.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
It has never occurred to me that I could create a phrase.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Vocabulary lists containing phrase
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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