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Upon hearing Poland’s order, Eatherly closed his eyes in a look of utter devastation.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Early plays Maddie’s lowest moments with raw sincerity and expressions of utter helplessness — visible cries for help, acted out with total concern and love for the feminine.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

How he attempts to square that with his economy’s utter dependence on the goodwill of those rivals will determine whether and how China’s economy ever returns to a stable growth footing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Picardo describes the agreement as introducing "complete and utter fluidity of people and goods" between Gibraltar, on the one hand, and Spain and the EU on the other.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

“Mad to believe your word alone! The price must be silence, utter silence!”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

One wonderfully executed sequence, in which Jonathan’s aunt calmly utters uncomfortable truths to the hypocritical and insensitive diners around her, is shocking and hilarious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

In it he utters what is now one of cinema's most famous lines.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Elphaba utters a spell that surrounds her sister’s feet with a red glow, and suddenly, she’s hovering midair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

"Brilliant," is one word that nearly every single England fan I speak to utters as I call out to them outside the stadium.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

Then her face crinkles in delight at the sight of Hideo—she utters a small laugh, calls out to someone over her shoulder in Japanese, and then holds her arms out at him.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

He often speaks about how he is living his dream - his parents have told him he has been talking about playing for England since he uttered his first words.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

It will decide if words uttered on the evening news are something the public shouldn’t have heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"It's crazy!" uttered a woman as the crowd beside suddenly burst into enthusiastic applause.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

One of the early leaders of the Coastal Commission, the late Peter Douglas, anticipated these trials and uttered a phrase I’ve repeated many times over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Like the telephone game—when the final sentence is uttered, it doesn’t quite sound like what it started out as.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Nearly 300 episodes, which aired during the 1990s and 2000s, showed the hapless, accident-prone brothers uttering their catchphrase "To me, to you" as they caused chaos everywhere they went.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Without uttering a word, they portray the nurses bustling behind doctors in the hit series "The Pitt," the agents guarding a crime scene in "NCIS" or, like Armella, work as "stand-ins" for stars.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

“Moving on to something a bit more important,” Fox proceeded, but not before uttering, “although it was an important part of my life.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Caty Wagner, water campaign manager for the Sierra Club, said she is most concerned that a board member recently felt comfortable uttering a racist remark out loud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

They both sat nodding in agreement, faces full of grim righteousness, uttering dire home truths and generally working themselves up into a fine old state of indignation.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques