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"You wouldn't walk into the Serengeti and try and put your hand on the face of a lion."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
They value ease and also put a premium on customer service, which is why the company is hiring more people to answer phones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Tribak described his life as "not bad", but told AFP: "I thought I would earn more if I put in the same effort there as I do here."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
To put the hypothesis to a large scale test, Suresh and senior author Timothy Linksvayer assembled information on social behavior and genetics from tens of thousands of insect species.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
If I had it to do again, would I really put these little personal comforts ahead of human lives?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The "grievances," as Montgomerie puts it, are real and legitimate, say Farage's friends.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Skew in this instance measures how much extra premium traders pay for puts relative to calls.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The two met at dancing class, where Fava was one of Iannotta's pupils, and started performing outdoors regularly in the summer since, as Iannotta puts it, they both "hate sitting around at home".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Although this signals that the U.S. has rebounded from the devastating losses that occurred during the pandemic, returning to 2019 conditions hardly puts us out of the woods.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
He puts a compress bandage directly over the wound and pulls Phineas's nightcap down tightly over it.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
If you slow down your investing by putting everything, or at least a significant amount, in Treasurys, you’re going to cut down on that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Protecting the president is important, but there was a way we could protect the president without putting other lives at risk. We didn’t want to use the press and staffers as decoys,” Lockhart explained.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Another investor Youngji Park says he went "all in", putting the majority of his available cash into Samsung shares that peaked at a total value of 45 million Korean won.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Accelerant had about 218.2 million Class A and B shares as of the end of its latest quarter, putting the deal’s equity value at roughly $4.4 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“No, no. It’s quite all right,” Clare said, putting on a fake air of calm.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
