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[ri-plahy] / rɪˈplaɪ /




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“Ope! Was hoping to make a Costco run,” some dad would inevitably reply.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

She was hanging up her jacket when her phone lighted up with his reply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In reply, Burnham admitted it was a "very dark and difficult moment" for Zelensky, who was "carrying the heaviest of weights" right now.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

OpenAI didn’t reply to MarketWatch’s request for comment on the numbers cited in the Financial Times report.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Just another day in good old Davey,” I reply with disdain.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“What’s the difference,” he replies, with impeccable noir-antihero resignation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“That was unintended,” he replies, only digging himself in deeper when he explains that, like plumbers or electricians, he was there to do a job.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

A female voice replies, “Allegedly, I like light-skinned, I guess.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“No, that concert blew me away,” Harrison replies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

‘Don’t be silly, dear. I can walk on my own,’ Bubbe replies sharply.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

I asked Rauh by email if he thought the campaign’s treatment of his estimates was proper; he replied that “it’s completely appropriate for public discourse and conclusions to cite the central scenario.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Asked by reporters Tuesday where she had passed the bar exam, Zacharia replied: "When I moved to China," without identifying any jurisdiction where she was licensed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the real world, he replied, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"I think on mainstream TV, but then it's just been replaced," he replied, pointing out that similar content has since appeared on social media.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Unwilling to believe, yet smart enough not to say so, Chitto replied, “Good thinking.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

I realized that replying to complicated requests or problems in anger or haste was never smart, so I kept his rule to slow my response time down eight hours for future correspondence.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

We’ve all been in a chat with an Oreo Mom, replying with hearts and exclamation points while the conversation goes sideways and everyone gets more and more enraged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

She has since stopped replying to messages from AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

In theory, we could able to liberate ourselves of dull, menial tasks, such as replying to emails, going to meetings or managing calendars and diaries, by delegating these to capable bots.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

I astonished myself by calmly replying, “You may think I haven’t been raised properly, but many people would disagree!”

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank


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