yes
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And yes — what plan of action, if any, does he have during a market downturn?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
And, yes, the new $150-million training facility that’s going to open in El Segundo next year is a better-late-than-never step in that direction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
When asked if he expects the Senegalese to stay, Sage said: "For the moment, yes, because when you have three years on the contract it is not easy to leave."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A new study that my colleagues and I conducted suggests the answer could be yes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
‘But the Wolf boy doesn’t know about demons, does he? Doesn’t even know what they are! Ah yes, the Walker can always tell.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
With three yeses, Mawhinney progressed to the next stage and remains in with a chance of winning the cash prize.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
But the reality is that celebrating these special days is expensive — and seven yeses add up pretty quickly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Propositions are a part of the ballot where you don’t have Ds and Rs, you have yeses and nos,” Baldassare said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
You are at the whim of yeses and nos.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
Spectators in the crowd murmured yeses in response.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed.
From Time Magazine Archive
As this remark, adequately yessed, had been on the tip of Mr. Gilbert's tongue, he could not be blamed for rather abruptly changing the subject.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable.
From Time Magazine Archive
No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
My grandfather had been wrong about yessing them to death and destruction or else things had changed too much since his day.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
I started yessing them the next day and it began beautifully.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
