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“We pay very well, have excellent benefits, have a beautiful campus,” McClendon said in a 2008 call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Mercedes driver George Russell, who retired from the race with an engine failure, said: "It didn't feel very F1."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
He said the plan had been to take him that very day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
"I think, at the very least, the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," Ferrell said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
I need to ask her a very important question, and to do that, I’ll have to make eye contact with Aunt J. So I chance lifting my head to meet her gaze.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the most blandly vacuous and the veriest tyros of the theatre can regard Cock o' the Roost favorably.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or perhaps those who have never known a mother's love cling to the veriest shred and tatter of it, if it fall in their way.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
