straight
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Nvidia’s stock price closed lower for seven straight trading days until the skid ended Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Although he didn't need surgery straight away Hibbert started to trip over things and felt severely fatigued and dizzy.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Fonda said she realised straight away that it wasn't just a theme song - it was an anthem.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Bonta set the record straight: “Paramount reached out to us to have settlement discussions,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
They never give a straight answer when we ask.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“She’s Captain America,” Bowe said, puffing out her chest and sitting up straighter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
I lifted several doors off their hinges in our house last month to refinish the hardware and hang them straighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Vonn went straighter than anyone else at the Panorama turn and it paid off.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Matthew Murdock returns to us on a straighter path, choosing his daylight identity as a lawyer over his secret vigilante life.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
His smart-fitting army uniform made him look straighter, leaner, and the sleeve had a skull-and-bones image next to the half of a yellow sun.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
England's plan to Gill was clear after his success at Headingley: their lines were the straightest they have bowled at a batter in 16 years as the pace bowlers targeted the pads.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
The Second City-trained Chicagoan is up for his first Emmy, though, as the straightest shooter in the wackazoid cast of “Fargo’s” fifth season: North Dakota state trooper Witt Farr.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
From the Latin for "appropriate" or "straight," as if shaking muscles were the appropriate response, the straightest line the body has to shock.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
“But it was very funny to pick the straightest bar in Dupont Circle for two men to go on a date.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
She has the most perfect helmet hair and the straightest, whitest teeth I’ve ever seen.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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