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Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was the one point the SBU worried most that the FSB might get wind of the operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

“I get wind of this video on Instagram, and it changed my whole world,” she said, “because I had felt completely alone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

Investors use them to shadow chief executives to get wind of corporate mergers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

“I get wind of much misplaced criticism, by men as clever even as Burnham, because of impressions from incomplete work and undeveloped compositions,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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