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The reserve for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever comes off the bench for the latter-day contenders, spelling for star Caitlin Clark and averaging a respectable eight points per game.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
A Welsh news site says Andy Burnham provided an "error-filled" article for publication spelling out his pitch to Wales.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The two sides still have to finalize agreements spelling out the services that will be provided at each venue by July 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
I have preserved original spelling and punctuation in quotations, except that I have regularized ‘u’ and ‘v’, and ‘i’ and ‘j’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Noah Webster, the creator of the first American dictionary of English, championed the spellings “opake,” “soop” and “spunge”—all of which now look like howlers waiting for a red pen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
The authorities from police forces in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have given different ages and name spellings for the escapees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
The other more common spellings of that knight’s name, Perceval and Percival, had already been taken by other users.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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