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One executive said he suspected the spying and put a code phrase in his email, which he said Bisignano repeated back to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Whitley uses the same phrase to describe Saar’s preternatural sense of an object’s narrative potential.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

In his post-match critique Tuchel said England were "not repetitive enough", an uncommon phrase.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

First, the Fed’s policy committee dropped this new phrase into its June statement: “The committee will deliver price stability.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Dodos, as you know, are extinct; therefore, this rather gloomy phrase means that the thing being described is not merely dead.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The union said that despite repeated demands to improve workplace conditions -- including mounting protest phrases on trucks -- the company had "ultimately ignored partners' demands, instead unilaterally introducing even more burdensome promotional events".

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Scientists have previously used phrases such as "metallike biomaterials" or "biomaterials with metallike properties" for biological substances that resemble metals in strength or electrical conductivity.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

LinkedIn is peppered with stories of job listings requiring candidates to take questionnaires or use specific words or phrases in cover letters, in order to avoid applications spit out by bots.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

My father’s sight was so bad that he had to look at the music about 2 inches away, memorize one or two phrases and then practice what he memorized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The crew immediately yelled several colorful phrases as they tried to prevent the PVC from messing up the newly poured concrete.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

He stumbled into his fate by saying demeaning, insulting things that could have been phrased diplomatically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

They used a deliberately challenging approach, where questions were phrased in a way that invited misinformation, to see how robust the AI's were.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

“Rather than focusing on the thoughtful responses of Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, and Andrew Garfield, the discussion continues solely on how I should have phrased the question,” Polidoro wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish, “The cheeses meld together to form the most delicious, frico-laced roasted and blistered fennel imaginable.”

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

There are fewer Circus Dinners now that the circus itself is up and running properly, gaining its self-sufficiency, as Chandresh phrased it at one dinner not long after opening night.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Whatever the tone of his voice might owe to state-of-the-art recording techniques, the suppleness and clarity of his phrasing are undeniably impressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

This phrasing appears to reserve press conferences for big announcements — a change from the past few Fed chairs who spoke to reporters four and then eight times a year after monetary-policy decisions.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

He said the phrasing was deliberately cautious, "avoiding strong words like 'protest' or 'against'", but that the authorities nonetheless asked him to take it down.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Search after search about lung transplants and lung-function percentages, new combinations and phrasing but always the same idea.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott