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Readers offered plenty of advice to one another: hang up, call authorities, avoid unknown numbers and skip random links and texts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Do you think we’ll be able to skip this race in next week’s edition?
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Questions about his age and passing ability may have led teams to skip King during the draft in April, but the Panthers snatched him up in free agency immediately afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
You can’t help but sympathize with her desire to skip the coming crisis in her industry.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
I always feel like something terrible—some awful unknown thing—will happen to my mom or G if I skip these little tasks.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Skubal skipped backward off the mound and buried his fist in the pocket of his glove in celebration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He thinks that companies have skipped to the next phase of the cycle, the Slope of Enlightenment, which is the step that occurs before the Plateau of Productivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
But sometimes, remodeling leaves homeowners with a sour taste in their mouth and wishing they’d skipped the project entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Shepherd skipped his Old Bailey trial while on the run in Georgia, before he was eventually extradited back to the UK to serve his sentence.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Chicken skipped the bottom two steps with a crash.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
“I’m totally tickled. I’ve just been skipping up and down the street. It’s so delightful,” says the New Yorker, who was nominated for playing immortal island founder Richard Warren the day after his 50th birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
One analyst raised his rating to Buy from Sell, skipping Hold altogether.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Families are skipping meals to make ends meet during the school holidays, a charity has warned.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some Americans are skipping salads or no longer buying lettuce at the grocery store amid a lengthy investigation into the cyclospora outbreak.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
She was so sad that she started sleeping all the time and skipping garden club meetings.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
