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For Melendez-Badillo, language has become "coded for the broader sort of racialized understandings of immigrants and immigration... this sort of nationalist idea of who gets to belong in the United States."

From Barron's

When she didn't go through Nashville and its country-music milieu, "it sort of threw people for a loop", he told the BBC.

From BBC

"Wheel your case through the airport but when it comes to boarding, simply take the wheels off, pop them in your pocket and know that you're sorted."

From BBC

Almost all schools already have some sort of phone ban in place - but policies vary from school to school.

From BBC

And so there's a sort of sycophantic element of basically sort of talking to yourself in a way, like to a mirror.

From BBC