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He also said he did not know whether the complaints were escalated to management level within the health board.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I didn’t know I would be here for this long, so it’s definitely different. I love California, and I think it’s a beautiful place to live and we’re lucky to live close to L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Cold-climate EV owners know battery life and range are a major downside of ditching combustion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Whether Washington would have approved of Trump’s ballroom is impossible to know.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The officials ask strange questions like “Do you know how to carry a canteen?” or “Have you ever worn a saber?”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
But as she starts training for 2028, Truwit knows even her national record times might not be enough to get on the podium in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"But no one knows for sure what will happen or not. You just rely on your intuition and survival instinct," the 34-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
He knows he cannot count on the support of his father, or his brothers, indefinitely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
When Bex Campbell bumps into people she knows in the street these days, they all say the same thing.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He knows I know who he’s talking about.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
I asked if she knew a friend of mine in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It bounced off the plate, ending his outing and, for all anyone knew, his pitching career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“We knew that the beauty of the city was how diverse it is and how many holes-in-the-walls there were, and we weren’t taking the time to explore that,” Neff said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Her voice breaks as she sings the lyric, "But I knew who I was when I got here", but it transpires that she's simply reacting to an audience member who's blubbing their eyes out.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Mom saw through it. She knew how you really felt,” I reply.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The spread between the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline and the cost of the crude oil needed to produce it — known among traders as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
For a brief period, the energy being released reached roughly 400 billion times the output of Earth's Sun, surpassing even the most powerful supernovae known to astronomers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The BBC's Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson visited the market, known for selling items like books and posters, as firefighters worked to extinguish hot spots.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
David Evans, who declined to be formally interviewed, told The Times while moving cattle in the seashore on his ATV that he hadn’t known anything about the settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Finally, she reaches the American camp, where she is brought to a man known only as “Captain Blair.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“Probably the biggest driver of stress is not knowing the end date of deployment—as happens in war cruises like this one. Uncertainty is tough,” said Montgomery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Especially with “One Battle,” I think the biggest adjustment I had was people knowing me before I walked up to them — people that I’m massive fans of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The student, who is also a freelance translator, has also found it hard to concentrate on lectures knowing he could be missing out on work opportunities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I can't thank the owners of MSG for allowing us to get the opportunity to do that, knowing that we wanted a private event and everything, and it was perfect," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
I brush past all of them until I emerge into the pale sunlight, gasping for breath, angry with myself for what I did to Theo, knowing that I needed to do it for myself.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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