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“It’s now like, ‘OK, there’s a little bit for everyone now.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But she stressed Wednesday that "at this juncture, I see it as prudent to give a bit more time to observe how inflation unfolds from here."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Conagra Brands’ stock was up a bit on Thursday, but the company’s results and forecast were the latest dose of bad news for the packaged-food industry.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Talking about recovery time, it maybe takes a little bit longer than before. Nutrition. Working in the gym, it’ll be longer than other players.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
By the time I’m finished it’s after five o’clock in the morning and it must be starting to get the smallest bit light outside.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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As for the mare, she was saddled and bitted in the time it took him to cinch Sunset up.
From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell
The tumult ceased, the colt submitted, And, like his ancestors, was bitted.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
Before the king was led his beautiful Cyprian steed, Favelle, gorgeously caparisoned, and bitted with gold, the saddle adorned with two little golden lions.
From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Greene, Frances Nimmo
But, like a bitted horse, man does not realize his strength until he has once run away with himself.
From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett
So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
A special kind of skill is, however, needed in breaking, training, bitting and schooling horses for a game like polo, or for the evolutions of what is known as the haute �cole.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Tishy was bitting off a loose end of thread, which gave her a determined and ferocious expression, but whether she could have seen anything or not the widow felt uncertain.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane
A little shadow passes over my mind as I think of the analogy to bitting a horse.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
Well what makes you so sure about it sneered the other bitting his lip so savageley that the blood ran.
From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth
Still no suspicion of the truth reached me that since I came to live with him my uncle had been bitting and breaking his tongue.
From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving
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