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Levy told the crowd that he and Gosling spent a lot of their downtime on set daydreaming about Ghost Rider and swapping ideas.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
There comes a point at which a woman realizes she’s a lot closer in age to Diane Keaton in “Something’s Gotta Give” than Amanda Peet, and she’s OK with that.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“We’ve spent a lot of time in the weight room,” Lowe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
"I see a lot of farm owners who are crying now... people have to harvest those naartjies but there is no one," the 33-year-old told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
His Chickasaw roots shared a lot in common with my Cherokee ones.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Eventually many took turns sharing what they’d witnessed — friends and acquaintances getting detained and immigration agents swarming parking lots, sometimes dozens at a time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The movie has a pastoral coziness and lots of silly humor, but it’s also a moving meditation on death that has adults sobbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Sin City used to have lots of cheap, all-you-can-eat restaurants that lost money but brought people in the door to gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
And then I’m also talking to lots of the independent promoters out there that you know I used to work with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
It wasn't much fun, but Peter Avakoff told my father that he would encounter lots of mudholes in the Iditarod and it was a good idea to get used to them.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
We've lotted on ye a good deal, here to the village; more maybe than you thought on.
From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
And the garment or coat without a seam of our Saviour was lotted for by the Jews.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
I don't deny I lotted on her before she was took away, but I never want to think about her again; so you needn't come nor send.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
Vocabulary lists containing lot
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