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To borrow a quote from the late great “SportsCenter” anchor Stuart Scott…Booyah!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I liked that their quote was based on how long the move would take, rather than the amount of stuff we own.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
To quote Legs McNeil in “End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones”: “Those songs are classic American pop songs. Why weren’t they played on the radio?”
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Key quote: “That macro improvement did not extend to our end markets in Canada or the U.K., which both saw continued pressure on consumer sentiment and discretionary spending,” Chief Financial Officer Kate Gulliver said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
She makes the quote marks with her fingers.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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The Daily Express also leads with Farage, who it quotes as saying he speaks up for the "ignored".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Tucked into the “quick facts” of the government’s press release, beneath ministerial quotes about climate change driving ever more severe disasters, was the quiet admission that wildfire activity “remains below the five-year average.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He was surrounded by his beloved longtime partner, children, grandchildren and dog, he said, in a room filled with photos and quotes of his longtime hero, boxing champion, Muhammad Ali.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The paper quotes the Ministry of Defence as saying "there was no evidence that any sensitive data or systems had been sent abroad".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mrs. Kluck makes air quotes with her fingers.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Practically no one wanted to be quoted on the bleak outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
In a recent appearance on the "The Rest is Politics" podcast, he quoted from Homer's "Odyssey" in fluent Homeric Greek.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Part of the work was based on interviews with students and staff, who are quoted.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
It hadn’t, although that 2023 decision, written by Chief Justice Roberts, approvingly quoted Harlan’s Plessy dissent, and Justice Thomas filed a solo concurrence “to offer an originalist defense of the colorblind Constitution.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It’s like that song lyric she quoted in one of her videos: “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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According to Politico, which broke the story quoting anonymous sources, the British leader sent a "few messages" via an unspecified communication channel to a person he believed to be Wiles before becoming suspicious.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
On Sunday Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the bonkers statements young radical candidates made a few years ago that damage their electability today, laughed it off by quoting a friend: “Woke 1 was crazy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Markets stop panicking when policymakers stop panicking,” Lee said, quoting billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It coquettishly combines 1920s chutzpah and eighteenth-century courtly dance, quoting along the way actual music by eighteenth-century Italian composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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