gotta have
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That’s a miracle — we gotta have a party.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
It means if you go to Kenny Chesney, you gotta have the hat — the girls have to have the cut-offs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Of his own ejection in the fourth quarter, Lee added: "I gotta have a little bit better emotional control in that moment."
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
Yet the lesson White House adviser Stephen Miller seems to have taken from border success is akin to Christopher Walken’s in the famous SNL skit: “I gotta have more cowbell.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
You gotta have a hoodie to fit in.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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