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Asked by senators whether the immunity remained in effect anyway, Blanche said yes; the ruling, he said, was under “review.”
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
"So, yes, go through a full leadership election, but think about what happens the day after it, not just what happens during it."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
On the surface, the answer is yes — you appear to be in a very strong financial position.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
Comparing it to 30 years ago, yes, I’m way better equipped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
She says yes and then takes a tin cup from the cabinet to the right of the stove.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But the reality is that celebrating these special days is expensive — and seven yeses add up pretty quickly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speculations have varied from hard yeses to a rainbow of bargaining; maybe in 2016, but definitely not in 2020 or 2024.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
Their yeses and great noes no longer mean anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
The primary school teacher, who comes from Bedford and now lives in Leeds, received four "yeses" from the judges during episode six of this series.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
All day, the yeses and noes had been swirling inside her, faster, faster, until she felt dizzy with indecision.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed.
From Time Magazine Archive
As this remark, adequately yessed, had been on the tip of Mr. Gilbert's tongue, he could not be blamed for rather abruptly changing the subject.
From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable.
From Time Magazine Archive
My grandfather had been wrong about yessing them to death and destruction or else things had changed too much since his day.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
I started yessing them the next day and it began beautifully.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
