heaven
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That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Claire described it as her "little piece of heaven".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Another way of saying this is that they’ve found a new way to dress up “Survivor,” the original — and, heaven help us, still running — task-based themed elimination show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
There is, in fact, little I can do about bad weather or, heaven forbid, anything worse happening at 35,000 feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
And—I guess there’s no nice way to put it—they stank to high heaven.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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José Rivera’s “Marisol” came out around the same time as Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” and both plays, vibrating with millennial anxieties, carry the earthly battle for human survival up to the heavens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
As Manchester United's home game with Ipswich Town drew to its conclusion, the skies went dark grey and the heavens opened.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In “Travelin’ Thru,” Parton raises her voice to the heavens and declares, “When I’m born again, you’re gonna see a change in me.”
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
"If they are a bit more generous and say that 'Zhu Rongji did accomplish some practical things', I will thank the heavens."
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Kepler was never able to be an effective observer of the heavens because of his bad eyesight, and in Graz he had no access to observational data.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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