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One executive said he suspected the spying and put a code phrase in his email, which he said Bisignano repeated back to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Burnham claimed, as he became Labour leader, in an ear-catchingly absolute phrase, that "I haven't made any decisions yet about who will be in that top team."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Whitley uses the same phrase to describe Saar’s preternatural sense of an object’s narrative potential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
First, the Fed’s policy committee dropped this new phrase into its June statement: “The committee will deliver price stability.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Good day,” Alexander repeated through bared teeth; as a result the phrase, while socially useful, was not very well pronounced.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 with bets placed on the prediction market Kalshi about specific words or phrases that would appear in the president's speeches, ABC News reported.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Scientists have previously used phrases such as "metallike biomaterials" or "biomaterials with metallike properties" for biological substances that resemble metals in strength or electrical conductivity.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
LinkedIn is peppered with stories of job listings requiring candidates to take questionnaires or use specific words or phrases in cover letters, in order to avoid applications spit out by bots.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
These magnificent phrases have rung down through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
If a short piece includes repeated phrases, it may be classified by the structure of its phrases.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
When she was called upon, she gave perfect answers—whole paragraphs, precisely phrased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Other countries have phrased it well: truth and reconciliation.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
They used a deliberately challenging approach, where questions were phrased in a way that invited misinformation, to see how robust the AI's were.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
It’s also important to know how a poll question is phrased and, in the case of a ballot measure, how it describes the matter voters are being asked to decide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
"But, Brother, didn't we decide that the appeal had been improperly phrased?" a brother interrupted.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The phrasing circulated widely online and prompted confusion and commentary about tone and context.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
That change in phrasing matches exactly what Deutsche Bank’s strategist Steven Zeng predicts.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
At some point, Dr. Singh had told Mom not to ask if I was feeling anxious, so she’d stopped phrasing it as a direct question.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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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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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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