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
But Takaichi wont just have to balance Japan's interests and its alliance with the US – she'll also have to do that while maintaining the country's crucial trade partnership with China.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
The event was packed and it went on for many hours as his rallies are wont to do.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
As is his wont, Jackson looked to a song to articulate his thoughts: “I’m a huge Joni Mitchell fan,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Surely, the eighty pole fighters, though unseen, would follow me and lead me and protect me, as is the wont of ancestors.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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