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He also said he did not know whether the complaints were escalated to management level within the health board.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I didn’t know I would be here for this long, so it’s definitely different. I love California, and I think it’s a beautiful place to live and we’re lucky to live close to L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
As a military son and a military husband, I know how deeply military families feel about every milestone missed and every week added to a combat deployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Whether Washington would have approved of Trump’s ballroom is impossible to know.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
What doctors don't know in 1848, strep and staph do: that the broken head of Phineas is an ideal location to land.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Purists might refer to it as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, but the rest of the world knows it as the career-saving surgery named for a sore-armed left-handed Dodgers pitcher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"But no one knows for sure what will happen or not. You just rely on your intuition and survival instinct," the 34-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
When Bex Campbell bumps into people she knows in the street these days, they all say the same thing.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mehta knows he must soon think of a Plan B. Perhaps he can start a food stall, or return to farming the family’s land, something he already does when he is home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He says it like he knows he’s right, even though I know he’s never been more wrong about anything.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
It bounced off the plate, ending his outing and, for all anyone knew, his pitching career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Her voice breaks as she sings the lyric, "But I knew who I was when I got here", but it transpires that she's simply reacting to an audience member who's blubbing their eyes out.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
At Wadadli, owner Edwin Brods knew customers were Tastebuds fans when they came into his Bedford Stuyvesant Antiguan restaurant quoting his personal catchphrase: “’nuff love.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
A former engineer at the company, Béjar has claimed for years that Meta’s child-safety tools were ineffective and that top executives knew its products were harming children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I pushed because I knew she was hiding something. I always know when she’s hiding something.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The BBC's Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson visited the market, known for selling items like books and posters, as firefighters worked to extinguish hot spots.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spread between the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline and the cost of the crude oil needed to produce it — known among traders as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Scientists identified the first known record of the Mexican burrowing toad, Rhinophrynus, in the southwestern United States.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Just this month, tularemia, also known as rabbit fever and caused by a bacterium in ticks and deer flies, was detected in people living on Long Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
He hadn’t known he was thirsty, but as he took a long drink, he felt strength returning.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
“Please don’t do that to Graham,” Annie said, knowing about my boyfriend’s and my decision around marriage and clearly disapproving of the style of the dress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Probably the biggest driver of stress is not knowing the end date of deployment—as happens in war cruises like this one. Uncertainty is tough,” said Montgomery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The student, who is also a freelance translator, has also found it hard to concentrate on lectures knowing he could be missing out on work opportunities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I can't thank the owners of MSG for allowing us to get the opportunity to do that, knowing that we wanted a private event and everything, and it was perfect," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
It is a very nice thing to do except that I don’t see him do it and leave the checkpoint without knowing the sodas are there.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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