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It returned in 2024, with a promise to "celebrate all women" and featured more a diverse range of talent, including Ashley Graham's appearance as a plus-sized model.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The novel approach is showing promise in going after a certain kind of hard-to-target protein involved in 85% of disease drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Investors should also resist reading it as a promise of 40% lower costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell, sitting next to soon-to-be free agent Tarik Skubal at their lockers in the aftermath of their team’s elimination from the National League Championship Series elimination, made a promise:

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He makes me promise to tell him if I feel another attack coming on.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

According to Tesla, customers will have to wait until 2028 to get their cars, and everybody understands that caveat emptor is key when dealing with Musk’s promises.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The Pickstock Telford development at Ecclefechan promises about 90 jobs in a rural area as well as help to reduce food miles.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Kotek, a former speaker of the state House — and a highly effective lawmaker in that role — made some very concrete promises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Mr. Musk promises that healthy users of Neuralink will process information so quickly that attempting conversation with normal people will feel “like talking to a tree.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Now that bargains have been kept and promises fulfilled, I think it best that we move on. Yes, little demon, we have business to discuss.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"I've had the president of Israel call me, and he was very, very sweet. He called the attackers thugs, promised to do everything in his power to have them arrested," Levine told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"All the things that we were promised since the 1950s, of space travel and flying cars... he's doing all of those things," said Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

And Poppi, the prebiotic soda Pepsi bought for nearly $2 billion, is underwhelming: Pepsi now expects to pay almost none of the $300 million bonus it promised the sellers if the brand hit its targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Musk has long promised to perfect self-driving technology and make it available in existing Tesla models.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“You promised and I’m going to tell you your name, and then you will give me back my baby.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Food-and-beverage and consumer-products companies have been trying to freshen up or hive off dated brands and scoop up promising upstarts that resonate more with younger consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Someone may distrust the industrial food system while enthusiastically supporting an administration promising to reform it.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

For years, he said, he’d been promising tribes and landowners their concerns would be addressed as the law requires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

He defeated the more combative congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary, promising a "politics of love."

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, Grabarek, while not specifically promising to do anything to help blacks, did ask for the black vote in advertisements in the Carolina Times, a courtesy Carr did not extend.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson