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AI writing seems off, and not just because of its reliance on “it’s not X, it’s Y” constructions or my beloved em dashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"His whole world fell apart," he said in a post on X.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"We take note of it and respect this decision, which applies to everyone," he said on X, vowing to continue fighting against what he described as "a deadly poison for our children".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
I am not a fan,” reads one post on X.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I quickly landed a long-term sub position teaching art history at the Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
"The approved measures will enable researchers, civil society and the general public to gain more transparency into X’s systems and the impact on users," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
MT: How do you feel about Gen X’s legacy as basically the coolest generation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“With strong Renison mine production likely to continue and sustained high prices, we project Metals X’s cash balance will expand to A$444 million by December,” analyst Matthew Hope says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
X's second commitment is to withhold UK access to accounts reported for posting UK illegal terrorist content, if it determines they are operated by, or on behalf of, a terrorist organisation proscribed in the UK.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Which would mean that right now, with both of us standing on Mr. X’s doormat looking at the wrapper in the door, Mr. X could actually be home or not home.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
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
We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
Note that removing the x’s from x +x 5 would be like cancelling the 2’s in the fraction 2 + 5 !
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
He picked up his pencil and began to try to untangle an equation with unknown x’s and unnamed y’s.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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
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
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
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
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
