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Paramount wants to get the deal done as soon as possible, and with the approval of Mexican regulators last week, only Bonta and the states’ lawsuit stands in their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
A young monkey has managed to get out of a wildlife park that was at the centre of a similar monkey escape two years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
It’s not only gripping, but extremely intricate if you’re brave enough to get on its level.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
So many of these influencers get deals on social media with both financial brands and other companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Aunt J does what we all do when we first get home— shout needlessly and announce our presence.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
When the butchering is over Then the farmer feels so-so; But he’s always sort of worried, Fears the cider’s gittin low.
From Time ● Oct. 15, 2015
Then he says, ‘We must be keerful, For the cider’s gittin low.’
From Time ● Oct. 15, 2015
Which, as she was born in the Bronx, is pronounced "We gittin they!"
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
“Hush, now. Luster gone to git de surrey en take you to de graveyard. We aint gwine risk gittin yo cap,” she said.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Listen to me, Jeth; you’re gittin to be a sizable boy. There’s goin’ to be a lot of things in the years ahead that you’ll have to stand.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
But one gets the sense that Thatcher’s worried about being pigeonholed.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Why is that a favored constitutional provision while this stuff all gets shoved to the side?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I’d never worked with Aaron before … but once we’re acting, it gets very intimate,” Chandler says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Contrary to popular perception that it is for the rich, the brand gets more than half its business from middle-class consumers, according to Bernstein estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He reaches down to press his own palm in the mud and gets my arm.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The 37-year-old star appeared onstage wearing a traditional Korean hat known as a "gat", featured in Netflix's animated megahit "KPop Demon Hunters".
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
They’re often depicted in traditional black hanbok and tall gat hats, which explains the Saja Boys’ costuming later in the movie.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
In this Bonnie & Clyde, female ambition is more dangerous than a loaded gat.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2013
As Bogart aged, he lost his defiance, leaving Warner Brothers for Columbia and trading his gat for a bow tie.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
Whare gat ye the fishes, Lord Donald, my son?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
“I got to be aggressive and be able to do a lot of things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We got up in the darkness and rain and then we went back in the darkness and rain in the night," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Micron stock was rising as it got good news about Chinese competition.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Just down the coast, at Praia do Pego, I got a glimpse of the Comporta that may be coming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
How crusty would it look if Rue got me a tennis bracelet, and on her birthday, I handed her coupons to Popeyes?
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He told me he had gotten “at least 100 calls” since the local news item announcing the impending closure.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Even though Europe's problems have only gotten worse with this summer's abnormally hot temperatures, drying rivers and further disrupting transport within the continent, earnings expectations for Stoxx 600 companies keep rising!"
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
I’ve gotten to meet all of my superheroes, in a way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
And, as hiring managers have gotten better at catching them, the workers have even begun using AI face-swapping tools to make themselves harder to spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
MarketWatch: Are investors getting too excited about artificial-intelligence profits that may still be years away?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
They’re getting every team’s best shot, as they knew they would, and they’re ... shrugging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Lucy said that it "is a bit of a work in progress" getting her used to living with their other pets, "but we're definitely getting there".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Gone are the days when the primary goal was getting workers and customers to adopt the AI features they built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 1850, die Boston doctors know very little about any kind of cell, even though the cell revolution is getting under way in Germany, thanks to Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
