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But we should also realize that the engineers who are so ready to offer grim characterizations of what they’ve created are much less willing to make any substantial process overhauls.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Everyone’s more than ready for it and thirsty for it in a real way,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
This committee, which includes representatives of the Home Office, the police and the Royal Household, seems ready to review potential dangers facing them.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
This goes way beyond just a lifestyle issue where the younger spouse is ready for pickleball just as the other needs a walker to get to the bathroom.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
I imagined that white girls with waved hair and flaring knee skirts did this sort of thing with their mothers—getting ready for dates, talking about boys.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Depending on the expertise and equipment at a given location, however, many patients in Germany currently have readier access to CSF analysis than to amyloid PET.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
For instance, clinical malaria is known to exhaust T cells, he says, and vaccination, by preventing infection, might therefore leave T cells readier to combat other pathogens.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 23, 2023
A bigger supply of vaccine, more people with immunity and readier access to a drug to treat mpox are among the reasons.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
I’m readier than I might have been in 2021, when “Sweatshop Overlord” had its premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, to collectively process the recent traumatic cascade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
The antelope were more wary, the birds readier to take flight.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Moore might not just be the best high school quarterback in the nation but also the readiest for the college game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Reid has been with the Seahawks the longest, playing in the final preseason game, and Carroll said he is the readiest to contribute as a result.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
The readiest way to make sense of him—and to hold at arm's length the pathology that overshadowed and overpowered and informed his genius—is to approach him as some kind of martyr.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2013
Our dialects are often the weapon readiest to hand in that fight.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2012
His first proposition and request, that the dance begun at Mr. Cole’s should be finished there—that the same party should be collected, and the same musician engaged, met with the readiest acquiescence.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
With that cleared up, Parton readied her rhinestone mic-drop: “I just know if I have to pee, I’m gon’ pee.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Huawei readied a new chip, the Ascend 950, that surprised early testers with its performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A female quartet readied to play mariachi standards as Anamaria greeted well wishers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Behind the scenes, Nasdaq has readied a cozy stable for unicorns to go public on its exchange rather than the NYSE.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
After that my uncle slept, and Ultima readied her things for departure.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
The company said Monday it is "readying the first airplanes" for delivery to launch customer Southwest Airlines.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
A team of roughly a dozen Blackstone dealmakers and executives focused on readying Jersey Mike’s for an IPO over the past year and a half, another person familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
He also encouraged landowners and land managers to take precautionary measures including the readying of specialist fire equipment.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
When the company was readying Yahoo Scout, its AI assistant, she tested early versions of the product alongside the team and gave feedback on its answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
I could tell he was readying himself to tell me something.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
