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[frayz] / freɪz /




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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

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

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

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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