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"What has happened to Helen has caused the community to step back in utter disbelief. We can't believe it, people are horrified by what has happened."
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
But their unrelieved brightness and utter lack of texture have the bland flatness of plastic, and render them lifeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
To deprive oneself of this film because of Mizrahi’s views would be to deny utter exhilaration.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mike Williams of Beresford Adams is one of two estate agents trying to sell the holiday homes, and said leaving "perfectly good properties" empty was a "complete and utter waste of money".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Nor could Suki, who utters only cute cat meows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
"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
He utters a line that never fails to make the audience laugh.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
The late Peter Douglas, former executive director of the California Coastal Commission, uttered them many years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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
Beatrice uttered a little cry and put her hand to her mouth.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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That left Raman uttering loopy word salads when she wasn’t crying conspiracy between the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lumen has followed up with another comedy skit, including one about a company lawyer who zealously stops Seattleites from uttering the brand’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
But one Wednesday morning last month, I found myself uttering to my wife a sentence that sounded frankly surreal to both of us: “Just to let you know, I’m about to call Trump.”
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
First the dark was his mother, uttering phrases in French.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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