a certain

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“A roller coaster takes a certain number of people to operate even on your slowest day,” Koch-Blumhardt said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

This sparks broader concerns for some, at a time when social media is awash with offers to buy unregulated peptides and pressure on people to look a certain way.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Excluding mom-and-pop shops and small businesses, essentially every store expects to lose a certain amount of money in merchandise each fiscal year.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

The retail focus makes sense given Musk’s unique pull among a certain set of self-directed traders, according to Marquez, who expects retail demand to be strong.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Maybe it would have stayed that way forever if a certain visitor had not come to The Mountain in search of a certain kind of gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff