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Kelly: You are incredibly humble but to say you aren't a skilful player is a wild thing to say.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

“Not only is it unethical and probably illegal, but it’s just a really wild thing to say — especially since my clients are U.S. citizens.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

“I can’t think of any one that has language like this, where it’s telling people to lie. That seems like a wild thing for lawyers, on both sides, to be saying.”

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2024

“That’s a wild thing for us as ice core scientists, because we’re used to being way inland and it’s just flat white.”

From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2024

I shrank back, my heart racing like a wild thing.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn




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