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In Christianity, the "end times" phrase refers to theories about what will happen at the end of the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Phair’s son, who is Gen Z, often says the phrase “it’s time to get the bag.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Fed calls this being data dependent, a phrase with the cadence of a discipline and the function of an alibi.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
“They phrase it as, we’re going to do a little bit of a hands-on screen exercise,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Once I listened to him give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and he mentioned the Haitian phrase “looking for life, destroying life.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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In her new translation, Wilson said she’s allowing herself more lines, longer words and the repetition of phrases, which is the same approach she used in her 2023 translation of “The Iliad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
To refine its packaging copy, Conagra is running word-association studies to test phrases like “good source of fiber” and “high in protein”—seeking claims that grab attention without sounding too clinical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
For starters, “Victory” is his daughter’s name, but both phrases are also a direct nod to the late Nipsey Hussle, who had the same words etched on his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
That was when I realized I had to write down the memories and myths and the legends—and even the phrases and jokes.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Pascal Confavreux, a ministry spokesman, phrased it more diplomatically: “We use irony and humor to deliver a punch and create deterrence by exposing the absurdity of the claims made by those who attack us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The Stueve brothers always defended raw milk, as brother Melvin Stueve phrased it, “the very best and safest milk there is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Pochin has apologised for her remarks, saying they were "phrased poorly" but maintained that many adverts were "unrepresentative of British society".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish, “The cheeses meld together to form the most delicious, frico-laced roasted and blistered fennel imaginable.”
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
These were carefully phrased to suggest, without saying so outright, that he and Edlefsen had achieved the resonance they had been seeking.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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His saxophone’s tone grows more appealingly buttery with each passing year, yet his phrasing has lost none of its urgency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
A UK government spokesperson said: "We have previously acknowledged this phrasing and took immediate steps to ensure it was not replicated."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I recognized the sound more than anything, Reshi. Its phrasing was very old, archaic. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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