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"Our goal is to achieve zero illegal deforestation by 2030," he said in a post on X on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
A huge league game in Orange County between host San Clemente and Mission Viejo has been canceled “due to close proximity fires and families affected,” according to an X post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
This plane theory had first come from an X account called “TickleTexts,” who did not seem to consider that the Austin City Limits festival draws visitors from all over the country.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
He’s received a signed AI server from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a shout-out from Musk on X for appearing in a hard hat at a SpaceX data-center construction site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
We must enter from behind the stage curtains three at a time, stopping at each X before it’s time to hit the X in the middle of the stage.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
So, before jumping into today’s news, don’t miss: a lively reader debate on Gen X’s affinity for bars and one couple’s journey renovating a ramshackle hut on the Irish coast into their dream home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Space X's Falcon 9 rocket is a reusable model and has been sent into space on several missions.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Apparently the NHL was initially unaware of this addition, and the elder Pocklington’s name was later covered with a row of X’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Corporal Z had been X’s jeep partner and constant companion from D Day straight through five campaigns of the war.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
If you have trouble following, there are many Philadelphians who will explain, having had the Xs and Os of the playbook tattooed on their skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The TikToks, Instagrams, and Xs of the world would rather nobody be worried about screen time at all, even as a few of those apps allow users to set their own limits.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
It is often called a violent chess match, and if you have ever seen inside a playbook and seen each play drawn up in Xs and Os fashion, you would have to agree.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
“Dawn Staley knows that it takes more than Xs and Os to win games,” basketball analyst Christy Winters-Scott said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
It looks like a bad pirate’s map with Xs marked for the treasure.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
But there are other cases in which scholars can only guess about the origins of x’s role, such as the phrase “X marks the spot.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2023
Mr Musk says "tweets" will be replaced too, with posts to be called "x's" instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
Nearby in a tent, 30-ish chairs sat on spaced out yellow x’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
Removing the x’s from x +x 5 would be like cancelling the 2’s in the fraction 2 + 5 !
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Shadrach studied his sketch and added a row of x’s to represent the Confederates.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
So he said "Didn't you never correspond with a girl and put some of them xs down to the bottom of your letter?"
From The Real Dope by Ring Lardner
Paide the smythe for making a new clapper for the great bell, xs.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Then follow "the names of those who were served with this writt, and who most willingly obeyed upon the receipt thereof," contributing altogether xvili xs 0.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
They imprint certain cabalistic tokens of ownership on the logs,--crosses, xs, stars, crescents, alphabetical letters,--marks respected all along the rivers and lakes down to the boom where the sticks are garnered for market.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
Item for the Tretys of Werre in iiij. books, which conteyneth lx. levis, after ijd. a leaff xs.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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