yes
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"You have to search for a long time because I've written a lot of songs. But yes, there are pieces of me, of course, in everything I write."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
"She gives so much growth to the county and the surrounding Appalachia -- economically, yes, but she has also uplifted us spiritually. She's known worldwide for being so kind."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“It’s all aboveboard and legal. People say, you can’t do that, but, yes, you can,” Letsch said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Gibson says, “She’s like, ‘Oh, my gosh, of course; yes, go right ahead.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Every other professor was happy with their yes, sirs and no, ma’ams, but Green had never been impressed with me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
But the reality is that celebrating these special days is expensive — and seven yeses add up pretty quickly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The choir got a standing ovation and four yeses from the judges after performing Never Enough from The Greatest Showman.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
You are at the whim of yeses and nos.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
As an image of the final object — Verner Panton’s 1990s Vilbert chair — was added atop the pile of yeses, Antonelli appraised the victors and nodded.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
All day, the yeses and noes had been swirling inside her, faster, faster, until she felt dizzy with indecision.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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
I started yessing them the next day and it began beautifully.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
