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wile

[wahyl] / waɪl /


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However, the promised repayment date soon passed, wile Barnes continued reassuring them the money was coming.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Miura was third in the free skate to seize the last podium place with a total of 253.69 points wile Tomono, fifth in the free skate, was fourth with 251.46.

From Barron's Nov. 2, 2025

Here are 10 freshly published ones that should wile away a March afternoon nicely.

From Seattle Times Mar. 2, 2023

The index of the economic outlook for the next 12 months slipped 0.4%, wile the outlook for the next five years climbed 5.2%.

From Reuters Dec. 12, 2022

They say you get used to bad smells after a wile.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

He did it with speed, superior skills and passing wiles that allowed him to rack up goals by the dozen and helped his teammates do the same.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2025

England's scrum creaked, perhaps decisively, when the wisdom and wiles of Cole and Marler departed.

From BBC Oct. 22, 2023

My concern is that it’s all too tempting to yield to such wiles in the name of saving time and minimizing effort.

From Scientific American Sep. 29, 2023

Even with all her veteran wiles, Brenneman can’t make Amy, an academic institutionalist who acts more like a public relations executive, believable.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2022

Jeffrey saw Renee and started to whirl toward her — she lives around the corner from us, and I guess not even four-year-olds are immune to her charms and wiles.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

As they had before the quake, they smoked cigars and wiled away the afternoon.

From New York Times Feb. 14, 2023

Adults wiled away days attending church, playing badminton, taking pottery classes and listening to music on the shores of a picturesque western New York lake.

From New York Times Aug. 13, 2022

A few years ago, I wiled away an evening with friends in a thermal bath in Segesta, in the same waters where ancient demigods reputedly used to frolic.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2021

It was at France House, for example, where Lochte and his swimming teammates wiled away the night before their fateful gas station incident.

From Time Aug. 21, 2016

Nothing could be further from the non-contact European court dances with which the colonial sugar-cane and coffee-plantation owners had wiled away their evenings before Cuban independence.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

He said the case was brought to "a crashing halt" when Mr Collins outlined the limits of what he would be wiling to say in court.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2025

"Those banks seek safety of principle plus interest and are not interested in or wiling to forego either in the interest of dealing with the climate crisis," Wolff said.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2024

She also suggests asking yourself how much risk you’re wiling to take.

From Slate Nov. 16, 2023

"You can put a value on stuff but if no one's wiling to pay that price, it's not a true value."

From Reuters Jul. 19, 2023

This night, as I sat beside him, wiling him to sleep, for he always had trouble sleeping—a most wakeful man!—he talked to me about the Queen.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary




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