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If you’re not prompted to name one, then ask to.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
So, we’ll ask again: What about buying depth?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
And its government may have to ask itself some awkward questions about the strength of its cyber-security defences, including whether the healthcare data could have been better protected.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“We’ll do an EV when our customers ask us for one, and they’re not asking us,” McLaren Group CEO Nick Collins said in an interview this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The next day, I ask: “Did Ma try to teach you how to read?”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
An old friend asks him to travel to Salzburg to lend his legal expertise to the very same academy he saw founded years before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“If we’re shutting down hunger,” she asks, “what else are we shutting down?”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Such extra dimensions have been proposed as one possible answer to the hierarchy problem, a longstanding question in physics that asks why gravity is dramatically weaker than the other fundamental forces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Don well?" asks the Daily Mirror, embedding a photo of the two leaders shaking hands in New York City.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Did you see the flyer I put in your locker?” she asks.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Sheriff’s officials said Summit Valley Road remains open for travel, but asked the public remain clear of the area for the investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In an interview with Heart Radio she said she was asked several times to feature in the documentary series.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I asked Chavie how luxury brands are reacting to the downshift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
His team asked follow-up questions to see if they could figure out what was going on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
It had made me feel like I had a kindred spirit—until she asked out my crush!
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
They dig into the research on socioeconomic integration, the tendency to conflate race and class, and the problem with asking individual parents to solve what is really a policy problem.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
But now, local health officials said, many affected by the Pennsylvania outbreak are seeing their neighbours fall seriously ill and asking thoughtful questions.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“So when I was traveling and doing all of the filming, the director was asking me questions, and there’s some private questions that I will answer that people never heard before,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In Woods’ case, she contacted both her servicer and the Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid, or FSA, asking why her debt still appeared on her credit report.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
There’s no use in denying what Theo knows he has heard, but I still can’t believe he is asking me this, after I tried to put him off last time.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
