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They can, however, get income-tax deductions when they donate stock to foundations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
They pull them out when it’s useful and get them to the right result, and they ignore them when they’re not useful and don’t get them to the right result.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
On whether the extended break has had an impact on injuries, he said "we need to get the numbers right" before deciding.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The analysts based their findings on 12 questions, such as where someone should shop for the lowest grocery prices this week, where to get household essentials and where to could get the cheapest car battery.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
And I get a gorgeous sterling silver treble clef pendant with my birthstone.
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
“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
“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
Everybody else who gets an ethics complaint or faces an ethics question faces fact-finding about it.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Citi says Starship gets it a step closer.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Sofiyka eats biscuits with herbal tea as she gets ready for bed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
What’s certain is that “Thing” never gets old.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
She gets up and retrieves a small cloth bag from her desk drawer.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
I needed food sadly, while even worse than hunger was the thirst that presently gat hold of me.
From The Coming of the King by James Hocking
“All their efforts around opt-in, Super Bowl ads, outreach, commercials, everything, they only got to 7.2 million accounts,” said Ray Boshara, a senior policy adviser at the Aspen Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“The harshest he got was, ‘You’re ruining the game.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
So you’ve got regulation and legislation basically foreclosed by Supreme Court decisions, and that leaves litigation.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
In 2024-25, they got £31m for reaching the Europa League final.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But she’d known those things before she got to Winnipeg.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“Even though it was 5 p.m. and people had just gotten off work, and people weren’t drinking heavily, it was still just electric,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
They predict a short-term hit to the housing market as many mortgages rely on two incomes and housing has gotten more expensive relative to salaries, especially for buyers already stretched financially thin.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The painful details came out in the courtroom: A former friend who’d played for the Cincinnati Bengals and then became a local real-estate developer had gotten himself in legal trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A spokesperson for Raman’s campaign said Cheng is paid for work he does for the campaign, not for posts on his personal social media account, and that it had gotten guidance from L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The hogs had clearly gotten in too, and that meant fleas.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Brittin has talked about the bigger prize of getting the news division's trusted journalism to much larger numbers of people around the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s one thing getting outbid — it’s quite another being given a red card by your lender.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Instead he’s getting sucked into the gloomy vibes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“That’s our biggest thing right now. So keep getting guys on base and get that big hit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’ll be the end of us and we’re only getting started.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
