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In the hardest-hit cities, several buildings were marked with a red "X" to warn of the risk of collapse and prohibit pedestrian access.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Political prisoner Emirlendris Benitez and five other women have been released," Foro Penal director Alfredo Romero said on X.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Praising a group of trainees on X, he wrote: “These Waterloo interns at baseten are hill climbing machines.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After serving half his original sentence, Bear was released from prison, but between 1 March 2025 and 21 July 2025 began posting on Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube and Facebook about the case and Harrison.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
So we signed some papers, Osh with an X, and said our good-byes.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
"The approved measures will enable researchers, civil society and the general public to gain more transparency into X’s systems and the impact on users," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
MT: How do you feel about Gen X’s legacy as basically the coolest generation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
A separate investigation into X’s handling of illegal content and information manipulation is ongoing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
"Did the shoes have red X's on the back?"
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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
“Dawn Staley knows that it takes more than Xs and Os to win games,” basketball analyst Christy Winters-Scott said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
Nearby in a tent, 30-ish chairs sat on spaced out yellow x’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
Note that removing the x’s from x +x 5 would be like cancelling the 2’s in the fraction 2 + 5 !
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We push messages under each other’s doors, written in the cryptic language of the aliens, which is filled with x’s and Z’s and must be decoded.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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
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
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
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
