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The strapped family eking out an existence on $500,000 featured in one such piece had fully-funded retirement and college plans, payments on two luxury cars, “date nights” every other week ... you get the drift.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Reminiscence Hugh Jackman plays a “private investigator of the mind” who helps clients access lost memories in a dystopian future, and one day a mysterious woman walks into his office— you get the drift.

From The Verge • Jun. 6, 2021

There’s more there, but you get the drift.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2019

You’re probably starting to get the drift: The foundation for Sax’s theory is light on evidence, heavy on old fuddy-duddy.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016

But you can easily group its contents: these chapters tell of the offerings: these of the law of offerings: here is an incident put in: here sanitary regulations: get the drift of the book.

From Quiet Talks on Prayer by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)




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