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That's what we see from Fernandes a lot when things aren't going right for United.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
The players sure made a lot more money, and Milwaukee now plays in the National League, but like ’82, they were likable, unfussy, relentless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Ken Mahoney, CEO of Mahoney Asset Management, said the harsher reactions showed that “expectations were through the roof and a lot was already priced in.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
"As a result, they've become textbook examples of convergent evolution, which can tell us a lot about the processes driving and constraining adaptive change in response to similar environmental cues."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
We all look at one another, and let’s just say not all of us are excited about that prospect—least of all Aunt J. Grandma immediately says she has a lot to do.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
They were struggling, initially, to adapt to her new style which demands lots of possession, an attacking mindset and high-risk football.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Long Beach and Newport Beach have been at the center of the devastation, with viral videos showing waves crashing onto oceanside homes, parking lots, boardwalks and jetties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
So far, 515 lots have been sold, with 44% going to developers, foreign interests and private equity investors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
A CNN article echoed the sentiment, noting that “lots and lots of people say they’ve never heard it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Whoa, what if there are lots of professors acting as secret double agents? Professor Treebaun was a real jerk back at the Academy, I could totally see him as a double agent. Couldn’t you, Blake?”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortune, indeed, and benefits by Fate are lotted out: One country's blest with fertile fields, whilst others sterile be.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
Fust she thought she was a bud, like lots o’ buds all ’round her, and she lotted on openin’ like they did.
From Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson
I don't deny I lotted on her before she was took away, but I never want to think about her again; so you needn't come nor send.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie
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