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Charles used the phrase in a speech in Barbados when he attended the ceremony in which it became a republic in 2021, removing his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as head of state.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
A huge legal battle involving tens of billions of dollars in contested tax bills for major corporations centers on the interpretation of a two-word phrase, my colleague Richard Rubin reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
And that phrase — “at a minimum, nearly a quarter” — needs to be understood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The RCN's lawyer, David Hay KC, questioned Peggie about when she came to understand the phrase "gender critical".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
She knew the Latin phrase “tempus fugit,” which means “time flies,” like a bird—but there were flightless birds, after all: ostriches and emus and dodos and so on.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Coroners are in the business of endings, putting a neat period on decades of damage with phrases like “cardiac arrest.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Words and phrases that will earn you a mark: genuinely, load-bearing, smoking gun, X is the new Y, and any “crazy hyphenated contractions that no one would normally use,” says Mehta, 33.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Other popular phrases unique to the Who-verse: “Good form, Bella Thorne.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Some words or phrases show up regularly, while monotonous sentence structures are also a warning sign.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Kabbalists thought that words and phrases with the same numerical value were mystically linked.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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When she was called upon, she gave perfect answers—whole paragraphs, precisely phrased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“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
And the way they phrased it was that they were questioning her.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 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
I phrased the following as a question: “I haven’t eaten anyone?”
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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Tremblay said the pitch has to be "Canada has stuff that the world needs" - which is the exact phrasing Carney has opted for.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Mr. Prieto’s ballad “Gently Trapped” highlights the transparent beauty and elegant phrasing of his flute playing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
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
The latter phrasing, while less misleading, is also less impressive, which explains why it isn’t used.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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