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“If I walk down the street, sometimes people will stop me and tell me how much they like something I wrote,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
They tell me you were a pitcher, Klena recalls Cole saying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The lessons may appear to be the same, but the individuals often tell disturbing tales that only the gods could see coming.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The pair tell BBC Newsbeat they will be "crying together" as they watch the finale later.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Earl did tell you that we were dating, didn’t he?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Cole often tells the story of sleeping on an air mattress with his wife, Emily, in a ramshackle garage apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Everyone knows more or less what the company does: Issue a score that tells lenders how good it thinks you are with money.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Sarah Middlemiss, policy campaigns manager at end-of-life charity Marie Curie, tells Morning Live admin tasks can be particularly difficult when you are grieving.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Lead modestly lifts his EPS forecasts through fiscal 2028 but tells clients in a note that he remains skeptical that ANZ can deliver on CEO Nuno Matos’s revenue targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
General Moore tells the crowd of attendees that Joey showed “more courage than that of a soldier on the field of battle.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Gold told The Times he had never publicly staked out a position on Israel or Gaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
"I beg your mercy so that I can be reunited with my family," he told the court.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
"While some of the circumstances remain unclear, we are confident that this activity was conducted on behalf of a foreign intelligence service," Taylor told reporters on Tuesday outside Metropolitan Police headquarters in London.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Honda isn’t “purposely trying to shift everything to connected TV,” marketing executive Megan Amic told Patrick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Was he hurt that I hadn’t told him?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was "very sceptical" of Tuesday's dialogue, telling Danish broadcaster DR, it had not been "co-ordinated with any of the rest of us".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Asked about US special envoy Steve Witkoff recently telling Putin he was a humanitarian, she called the comment "nonsense" and "a pity".
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
She said that she is telling residents this will likely be their last chance to leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Townsend had just talked on the phone with Foreman, telling him not to worry about picking up trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Karli was leading Marlene by her trunk, making his usual clicking noises and telling her to gee up, just like he had always done with Tomi back on Uncle Manfred’s farm.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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