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Davidson referenced a New York Times article about trouble with their business venture, but said, “I cant spend $5 on a paywall when I have a kid on the way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

Lauren doesn’t bother to keep a lid on his simmering contempt, he just recodes it as a stream of virtue-signaling cant.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

"I'd smile to myself thinking, I cant wait to marry that girl," he told the court.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023

“I cant tell if she has me or Amos’s eyes,” Norton wrote on Jan. 30, 2020, after seeing the latest picture of Eden at the hospital.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023

“It caught me in the hip so bad now I cant scarcely move. Climbing them stairs all evening.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner