saying
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Joe diGenova resigned as a supervisor of the probe, saying department officials pressured the team to bring criminal cases before they were ready.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
When told by the judge that the grandfather would become their guardian, the eldest child responded saying "that's all good".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
McDaniel is aware of the potential ramifications despite Harbaugh publicly supporting him, saying calls for his firing “comes with the territory.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the shooting in an initial social media post, saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had shot a New Yorker while his child was in the vehicle.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Standing awkwardly in front of the class and saying nothing felt like getting hit in the head.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather’s sayings and quotations.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
He has written poetry since high school, peppers social media with inspirational sayings and donates time and money to several charities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
The Soviet Union was a land of shortages, but there was no shortage of acerbic sayings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Highlander Hart's sister, Jamie Hart-Dobbs, still vividly remembers one of his regular sayings about Army life: "They taught me how to go to war, they didn't teach me how to come back from it."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Another of Grandma’s sayings came to mind: stuck between a rock and a hard place.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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