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"I've had a clear answer that, yes, there was," he claimed, without saying who provided that clear answer or what the evidence for that suggested clarity was.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“One day she’s yes, the other day she’s no,” Hutt told a crowd at a pro-Bass rally last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“As much as I have to throw up in my mouth a little bit and swallow that…I have to say that yes, I want us to be able to have a voice,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The right mix depends on your spending needs, other sources of income, your time horizon and — yes — your tolerance for risk.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Oh yes, hello there. Fine day to you, sir.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
But the reality is that celebrating these special days is expensive — and seven yeses add up pretty quickly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speculations have varied from hard yeses to a rainbow of bargaining; maybe in 2016, but definitely not in 2020 or 2024.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
Their yeses and great noes no longer mean anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
The primary school teacher, who comes from Bedford and now lives in Leeds, received four "yeses" from the judges during episode six of this series.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
My job was to stand there, shake hands, and throw out yeses and noes as needed.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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
No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy.
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
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
