straight
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The numbers across the city were a setback for Bass, who has made homelessness one of her signature issues and previously touted two straight years of drops in street homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The best parts, especially if you’re not traveling light: priority boarding plus the option of Red Cap service to your train straight from the lounge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Araki quickly points out that there is also much of himself in Wilde’s artist character and some of her most outrageous dialogue comes straight from things Araki has said in his own past interviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Alonso was sent out straight away as soon as the session restarted.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
We knew it was a risk, but we walked straight up the gravel drive and knocked loudly on the huge front door.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
The finished bowl is bright enough to make you sit up a little straighter.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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
In a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar UK, Winslet spoke of being told to sit up straighter to hide her “belly rolls” while on set filming Lee.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
And Nana and Granddad did seem to sit up straighter as we got closer to the house.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
It wasn’t the straightest path and there were times when Crawford and the Mariners wondered if he’d ever grow into all that was expected.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
He’s the straightest cat you will ever meet.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023
Curly, played by Sean Grandillo with the guitar-slinging aplomb of a country-and-western recording star, has the straightest of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
She took her time selecting it: the best, the straightest, the most perfectly balanced.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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