straight
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She’s good at these little details that illuminate character, and isn’t afraid of goofy phrases that make you wonder if she’s playing it straight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
And while the number of venture capital deals dropped for the fourth straight year, their value rose by 28 percent to $510 billion in 2025.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Lions have won 47 straight games led by Kate Meier, who this season has thrown for 5,028 yards and 62 scores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
But with so many bodies involved such negotiations will never be straight forward.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
I focus on the bag of rocks in my hand and space out my breaths, try to force my voice straight.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
I pushed my shoulders back, stood up a little straighter and instead said:
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
He improved the more he bowled, a fuller length and straighter line to better the five-wicket haul he took in this ground against West Indies last year.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Hanako tried again, and her seedling didn’t stand straight, but it did stand straighter than her previous attempt.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
It’s the straightest thing about me, how little I know about astrology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
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
To say Buckley took the straightest path to professional golf, though?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
It wasn’t the straightest way over to Verplancks Point, but Father went that way because it took us past our cousins’ place.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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