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Bill Clinton secured a lot of Irish-American support when he was running for president, by promising to get engaged in the peace process.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The caucus talks a lot about organizational structure and theory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"If you start looking at long-lived species like elephants, whales and bats, you start finding ways that nature has actually already resolved a lot of these problems in human health," Vazquez added.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“It was a lot of visualization and concentration, holding focus,” he said before the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Blinking, she tries to make sense of the pockmarked parking lot in front of her.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Can you make sense of lots of disparate pieces of information?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Marr will donate the full hammer price from 31 lots to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
For weeks, Louise said there was lots of "clinging to hope" about missing people being found but it was understood that anyone on or above the 77th floor of the South Tower had died.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Copper miners, Cryer adds, mostly know where the big reserves are concentrated, and unearthing lots of surprisingly large deposits is unlikely now.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Hogwash! I find lots of gold, and look! You call this fair?”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
So we lotted out the land, of which there is enough for hundreds, and began to build rude houses.
From Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard
So, or since, the Black Stone had wandered into an auction, for the lotted paper was still on it.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
The old estate, of about 150 acres, was lotted out for building in 1839, the sale being then conducted by Messrs. E. and C. Robbins, August 19.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman
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
Vocabulary lists containing lot
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