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At the time, resale brought to mind old, dusty clothes in the back of a closet and rummaging through thrift store racks just to put on someone else’s shoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He is played with a fine sense of clueless arrogance by Mr. Son, as the character idly practices his golf swing with a precision he fails to bring to his idle and addled mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"If somebody's going to have a problem that it doesn't do exactly what they had in their mind of what a Resident Evil movie is, I can't say anything to that."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
With those concerns top of mind, analysts at the firm on Friday downgraded shares of the streaming giant to underweight — the rough equivalent of a sell rating — from equal weight.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“You guys always have plans. You won’t mind if I borrow your bestie for a couple of hours, will you?”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Also, the phones take people’s minds off what’s going on onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The models seemed, almost, to have minds of their own, and they were so easy to use that the potential for abuse was dire.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Neither said what follows: If these systems are indeed minds, we need to study them as such—but almost nobody is doing so, to increasingly dangerous effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Knowing the minds of investors gives the prime minister, who began his career at investment bank Goldman Sachs, an advantage this week.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But they had other things on their minds.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The committee's chair Maureen Freeman, Labour, said the panel was "not minded to grant the licence as requested".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The audience instantly understands that this is Schoenbrun riffing on their own intellectually minded approach, and that Kris is a self-insert character for the movie’s writer-director.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
As anchored as he is to Beirut, she is a transnationally minded sophisticate who is in a major hurry to move to Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The proposal delivers a "superior outcome" for shareholders and as such, "the EasyJet board is no longer minded to recommend the Castlelake proposal", the airline added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
I don’t think any kid at my old school—even the troublemakers—would’ve minded a sky-blue-painted school with bright lights and clean hallways.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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“I feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry for the Roebucks too. Two innocent people minding their own business.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Because in between minding the net for Team USA, Frankel, 27, has quickly emerged as one of the foremost connoisseurs of the dish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It’s about gratitude and respect for you and your husband, especially given that you do so much for your daughter, including minding her own daughter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Meanwhile, the legal team minding the game in the Lakers’ huddle is running laps around the guys on the other bench.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
“A very gentlemanly exhibition,” add the peregrine, not minding that Captain Balan had spoken before her.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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