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"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Even so, he is optimistic about Mr. Sununu’s chances: “I think it’s a very close race.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Giamanco's mother told the local Fox affiliate she was "very proud" and that her son was "an absolute hero."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The climate of fear was very much alive. It was a community in trauma.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"You make me very proud. You are capable of being a good governor, not of one but of many islands."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Only the most blandly vacuous and the veriest tyros of the theatre can regard Cock o' the Roost favorably.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For the creature looked the veriest scarecrow that ever hung about a church-porch.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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