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"That's what life's about, right? You daydream and you dream about the biggest things possible. Then you try and make it a reality."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I try to just be very clean with what I eat, what I put on my skin,” she says, holding a drink that contains high-fructose corn syrup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
While Gardner repeatedly suggested there was no clear evidence to overturn his original on-field call, the try was eventually chalked off.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Both sides have ramped up the use of force to try to break the deadlock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
She’s always wanted to try frybread, but opportunities have not been forthcoming, despite her knowing for years that she’s Chickasaw.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Goshawk says Solace tries not to place the onus on the football itself, but on the perpetrators, who are - in the vast majority of cases - men.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Once he enters the modern world to search for their missing parents, she tries to make up for lost time.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“If a small or midsize family farmer tries to take that stand, good luck. They’re just going to get squeezed out of the market,” Volpe said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The comedian stars in this comedically spotty 10-part series following a washed-up golfer as he tries to make a comeback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
She tries to squeeze in some last-minute reminders, but I’m not exactly listening.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The lawsuit alleges that Sheriff Robert Luna failed to confiscate Giandomenico’s phone after learning of the photos and tried to conceal from Nancy Lemus that the images existed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
That Plan B could be deploying a false nine, which Tuchel tried out in the international friendly against Uruguay in March.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The chain tried to reassure its customers in a post to X on Friday, saying it doesn’t use iceberg lettuce.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Part of the way Anthropic has tried to address token costs is by offering customers a variety of tools to control costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“You tried, this time. But remember—you have no cards except the three for you, Opa, and Tante Betsie. There is no underground activity here, you don’t understand what they’re talking about. . . .”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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"It's about... compassion and empathy and trying our best to understand without judgement what our patients are experiencing," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
"We're essentially trying to create a tree that shows both the relationships of all the different species in the tree, while also calculating when those branches probably diverged," Dr. Churchill says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
“The unfortunate thing is that journalists are trying to create a genre out of gender, which trivializes it,” she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
“They are trying to sell something that is not sellable,” Bannon said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
“This might not be like that. Maybe this artist is trying to highlight the beauty and inner strength of the Black community,” Dad says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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