straight
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Carroll won back-to-back national championships, seven straight conference championships and four Rose Bowls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“No one can tell you with a straight face where interest rates are going,” Jim Lebenthal, who was a market strategist specializing in municipal bonds, wrote in 2009 in his now-classic “Lebenthal on Munis.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Oil futures rose for a fourth straight session as transit remained restricted through the Strait of Hormuz, keeping supply concerns alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
I did not understand at that time that you should feed the dogs straight raw meat and fat.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
I pushed my shoulders back, stood up a little straighter and instead said:
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The finished bowl is bright enough to make you sit up a little straighter.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
"There are certain judges who, if they're on the case, you kind of stand up a little bit straighter," said Edelson.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
I lifted several doors off their hinges in our house last month to refinish the hardware and hang them straighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Allys sits up straighter, and her words come fast and clipped.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
England's plan to Gill was clear after his success at Headingley: their lines were the straightest they have bowled at a batter in 16 years as the pace bowlers targeted the pads.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Curly, played by Sean Grandillo with the guitar-slinging aplomb of a country-and-western recording star, has the straightest of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
From the Latin for "appropriate" or "straight," as if shaking muscles were the appropriate response, the straightest line the body has to shock.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
Rather than play the 581-yard hole as a dogleg right, the way it was designed, the game’s longest hitter chose the straightest route.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
It wasn’t the straightest way over to Verplancks Point, but Father went that way because it took us past our cousins’ place.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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