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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
"Today has come as a complete and utter shock to us as a family," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Drinks producer Radnor Hills said plans for the scheme - which will see consumers being offered cash or vouchers for returning empty drinks bottles and cans - were a "complete and utter mess".
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
In a moment of utter exasperation, he announced that he would simply quit playing for his country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
“She suddenly began to utter the names of the women who had worked with her as if in a final roll call,” Shaw later recalled.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
In it he utters what is now one of cinema's most famous lines.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Grant, on the other hand “talks like an earnest business-man—prompt clearheaded & decisive—& utters no bosh.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
By the end of our time together, I’m getting used to how he casually utters such profound statements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
“It stinks,” she utters, turning to the waters.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Lineage Chief Operating Officer Jeff Rivera repeatedly uttered what everyone wanted to hear: “I am sorry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
That statement has haunted the administration since he uttered it.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Those words were uttered in a week PIF sold a 70% share in Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal for £276m.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Instead, he gave one of the most famous, and perhaps the most quietly professional, replies ever uttered.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
I came walking behind; with me other women, whispering words of comfort that the rain washed away as soon as they were uttered.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
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
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
We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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