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"If the government can't fix it, which it hasn't, and industry can't fix it, which it hasn't, then cannot the courts fix it?"
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"I do believe they could fix it," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“But the truth is … I was not able to fix it by myself, so I needed some help.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The plans include a short-term fix for an ailing reservoir and longer-term efforts to keep the river flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
By the time I leave this island, I will fix all my mistakes and everyone around me will be happy.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
For Leon Berkers, whose restaurant boat has been stuck in the mud for more than a month, adaptation has so far meant improvising fixes to keep "pots and pans from flying around."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Our auto columnist Dan Neil says the redesign fixes a few of the biggest hybrid annoyances while demonstrating that improved fuel economy doesn’t mean sacrificing performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Anthropic added that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
He dribbles back to the top of the key, fixes his eyes on the goal.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
Concerns about inflation and more debt supply is hitting the fixed income sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Julia Bączek emphasizes that past experiences can be processed differently over time, rather than remaining fixed and unchangeable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
The domestic emoluments clause provides for the president to receive a fixed salary and bars him from receiving “Any other emolument from the United States or any of them.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Defence counsel Simon Gilbride argued that she could be dealt with by a substantial fixed jail term followed by a period of supervision in the community.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Willem fixed his sober, deep-set eyes on mine.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The Pronator Inferior Quadratus, springing forth from the bottom and inside of the Cubitus, is fixt in the lower and outward part of the Radius by a Tail as large as its Head.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
While Scott was reading, the sage grimalkin already mentioned had taken his seat in a chair beside the fire, and remained with fixt eye and grave demeanor, as if listening to the reader.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge
Therefore once dead in vain shall I transmit My shadow to gazing Posteritie; Cast farre behind me I shall never see’t, On Heavens fair Sunne having fast fixt mine eye.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Heere is fixt the epitaph of Sir Henry Kebyll, Knight, Who was sometime of London Maior, a famous worthy wight, Which did this Aldermarie Church erect and set upright.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
“It’s been fun fixing minor annoyances,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Her son Nick, who is nearly 40, adds: "They just seemed completely overwhelmed, the hospitals. The wait times are huge so I'd rather they focus and spend money on fixing the NHS."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Yet in a bizarre case of fixing something that does not need fixing, the program became the one CBS property executives chose to radically remake.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“While it is good that Honeywell Aerospace recognizes that it has problems, fixing them will not be an overnight affair,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
We got an old table for fixing a brush rake.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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