wont
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“The market can do anything,” Richard Russell, the author of the Dow Theory Letters, was wont to remind his readers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Titled “Mary Magdalene,” it mixes fact and fiction, as in general seems to be Davis’ wont as a natural-born storyteller, always refining her tale through fabulation and embellishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
Liverpool, as is their wont this season, were not to be denied.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025
The event was packed and it went on for many hours as his rallies are wont to do.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
Eight hundred and eighty-six dollars wont last long, but it will give me time to get my bearings.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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