X
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—Elon Musk, in an X post earlier this week, about Delta CEO Ed Bastian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lee rejected this characterisation on X, saying it concerned "the dignity of the Korean people and the nation".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Robin Brooks, for example, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discussed the potential for a spike in the real against the dollar in a posting on X Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We chose this name for a few important reasons,” Ellison wrote Friday in an X post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Then, the two swords touch, cross, making a perfect X shape like the school’s emblem.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
MT: How do you feel about Gen X’s legacy as basically the coolest generation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
X's second commitment is to withhold UK access to accounts reported for posting UK illegal terrorist content, if it determines they are operated by, or on behalf of, a terrorist organisation proscribed in the UK.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
He said X's commitments were "a step forward, but there's a lot more to do".
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
The agent for the book sent to my hotel a contract dealing with foreign publication rights which needed Malcolm X’s and my signature.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
If you have trouble following, there are many Philadelphians who will explain, having had the Xs and Os of the playbook tattooed on their skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The TikToks, Instagrams, and Xs of the world would rather nobody be worried about screen time at all, even as a few of those apps allow users to set their own limits.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
It is often called a violent chess match, and if you have ever seen inside a playbook and seen each play drawn up in Xs and Os fashion, you would have to agree.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
It’s still Xs and O’s and finding the right schemes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Criteria like this can be used to determine how likely it is that sequences of heads and tails or Xs and Os or hits and misses are randomly generated.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
But there are other cases in which scholars can only guess about the origins of x’s role, such as the phrase “X marks the spot.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2023
Mr Musk says "tweets" will be replaced too, with posts to be called "x's" instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
But each entry on the list is a 20-character string of numbers and letters followed by a lot of x’s.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
Nearby in a tent, 30-ish chairs sat on spaced out yellow x’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
It’s nothing but a thousand tiny x’s to be made up in different colors of thread.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Paide the smythe for making a new clapper for the great bell, xs.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Then follow "the names of those who were served with this writt, and who most willingly obeyed upon the receipt thereof," contributing altogether xvili xs 0.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
They imprint certain cabalistic tokens of ownership on the logs,--crosses, xs, stars, crescents, alphabetical letters,--marks respected all along the rivers and lakes down to the boom where the sticks are garnered for market.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
So he said "Didn't you never correspond with a girl and put some of them xs down to the bottom of your letter?"
From The Real Dope by Ring Lardner
Item for the Tretys of Werre in iiij. books, which conteyneth lx. levis, after ijd. a leaff xs.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
