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Facebook, which did not reply to AFP requests for comment, eventually took down the page.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The State Department didn’t reply to a separate request for comment on the conditions facing the crews of the Iran-linked vessels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
That was Scotland's ninth consecutive crack without reply.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Xi did not reply in kind but rather stressed their two countries’ overlapping “interests.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
‘I said, what are you doing here? You have ten seconds to reply.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Their replies have been edited for brevity and clarity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“That was unintended,” he replies, only digging himself in deeper when he explains that, like plumbers or electricians, he was there to do a job.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
A female voice replies, “Allegedly, I like light-skinned, I guess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"There is no vacancy at the moment," she replies.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I was born in this very house,” she replies.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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“I think I can help with that, I really do,” Hilton replied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I don’t know — I mean, I don’t want to judge people like that,” Hilton replied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"You've been crying behind the scenes to get out of this fight. I've checkmated you. You have to fight," Fury replied.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Such is his alienation that, when recently asked whether he considered his home to be in the U.S. or the U.K., he replied “neither.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"I'm afraid I can't do that," replied Mr. Kravitz, with mock sincerity.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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I realized that replying to complicated requests or problems in anger or haste was never smart, so I kept his rule to slow my response time down eight hours for future correspondence.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
We’ve all been in a chat with an Oreo Mom, replying with hearts and exclamation points while the conversation goes sideways and everyone gets more and more enraged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
She has since stopped replying to messages from AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Multiple meetings with us were never kept, and eventually he stopped replying.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
He waited until Dr. Begbie had opened the front passenger side door, and he set me down on the seat before replying.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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