at heart
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The feeling was pervasive: The experts were fallible, even untrustworthy, and didn’t always have your best interests at heart.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Harry Maguire: Authoritative presence at heart of defence for most part but yet again unable to stop gap opening up for Rogers to score.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
I chose Joe because I’m a PI at heart, and there’s a tennis background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
"Unfortunately, I think this was marketed as a general audience movie, when at heart, this is an art-house film."
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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