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If you had put your money in the S&P 500 at the end of May, you’d have made exactly 1 cent per share by now.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Better to “keep calm and carry on,” as the old wartime slogan put it, than to be seen cleaning supermarket shelves of bottled water and canned tuna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
And so I think that what I do in my comedy is I always like to put medicine in the candy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s probably 1000 questions that really allow you to put meat on the bones of the result you just saw.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
“I’m not—hold on! Wait a minute! You’re the one always demanding I put my monocle back on to hide my eyehole, so it’s rich you’re the one lecturing me on this!”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Particularly In Texas, this puts hundreds of thousands of Muslims in an untenable position.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
He was fifth fastest, but a one-place penalty for Red Bull's Max Verstappen puts Antonelli on the second row alongside Hamilton's team-mate Charles Leclerc.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
He puts it on and goes ‘Oh, this is good.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The way Carrie awakens to her supernatural powers puts her in the realm of today’s young-adult fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s a beginner piece that I could play in my sleep, but it’s also a calming melody that always puts my mind at ease.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Beyond its choppy recent record, Ferrari had historically shied away from actually putting Italians in the cockpit—an order that came from the founder himself, Enzo Ferrari.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Fair enough—but why tell this story at all, if not to take on the burden of putting the unsayable into words?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Brussels says this is putting increasing strain on customs authorities, thereby raising their costs too.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
But Airbnb's new rules mean hosts can no longer ask guests to do jobs normally carried out by cleaners, including washing and putting away dishes, stripping beds and taking rubbish off site.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
They would stumble into Rin at a time when people were thinking of putting out their lamps and going to sleep.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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