straight
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I highly recommend skipping Google, skipping ChatGPT, and going straight to INeedAnA.com.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Our greatest focus is on when robots will make their way into thousands of industries and thousands of homes," said Kang Yu, a Beijing-based investor attending the expo for a third straight year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Stand on a firm, flat surface, with your feet straight and the balls of your feet flat on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The VIX was on track to finish at around 15.66 on Tuesday, a notably low level considering that the S&P 500 was set to tally a third straight day of losses.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
All the way through she sang, while I stared straight ahead, not daring to turn around for fear of breaking the spell.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The “new” Ridge Route, with its straighter and wider lanes, was called the Alternate when it opened in October 1933.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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
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
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
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
He was the longest baby Johnny had ever seen, had the straightest black hair, cried the least and ate the fastest.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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