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The phrase “pacing the frontier” is so clever as to be close to demonic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

To do so, he used the words 'Am Yisrael' - a Hebrew phrase that means 'People of Israel' and is bound up in Jewish religion, community, culture and history.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It turns out dietitians have been passing versions of the phrase around online for years.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Be careful what you wish for," Barker said with a smile, recognizing the phrase also applies to his film's meteoric success.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

A motif is a short musical idea — shorter than a phrase — that occurs often in a piece of music.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

When a federal judge is using phrases like these to describe your legal argument, that is a good sign that things are not going as you’d hoped.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

There’s a compelling argument regardless that even when these phrases fall out of favor, the trend of men paying more attention to themselves will remain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Then she adds short phrases: "Won't break. Can't Shake. Deep breaths…. Tight chest. Life. Death. Rewind."

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Otto and TimeStar became frantic, their voices and phrases matching each other in ways that drew Petey’s attention.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

When she was called upon, she gave perfect answers—whole paragraphs, precisely phrased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Runcorn and Helsby MP apologised for her remarks, which were made during a TalkTV phone-in on Saturday, saying they were "phrased poorly" but maintained that many adverts were "unrepresentative of British society".

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

“Rather than focusing on the thoughtful responses of Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, and Andrew Garfield, the discussion continues solely on how I should have phrased the question,” Polidoro wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish, “The cheeses meld together to form the most delicious, frico-laced roasted and blistered fennel imaginable.”

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

Yes, that’s the way she had phrased it, “What have you done to her, Mama Dede?”

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Using the descriptive phrasing that was common then among older people, she said, “That is the prettiest little girl I have ever seen.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

A sermon used to take him 10 to 15 hours to prepare; a chatbot doing first-pass research and phrasing shaves off several of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan