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“I really do think that she’s the future of the league. … I’m happy to be able to leave whatever I can before I throw my feet up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Others told us of fears that their land would be taken and they would no longer be able to farm for a living.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
That’s what we were able to secure and it has to be all journalists on this five-person board.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"There's use going on at school. That's really difficult. And, unfortunately for many of these children they are not able to attend education for various reasons."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They hadn’t been able to brush all the chalk dust out of Miss Myrt’s dress, so she looked natural.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2015
He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.''
From Time Magazine Archive
“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Fabulous for little Jack and Jill Mediocrity, but do they push the brightest and ablest?
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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