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Administration figures peppered public remarks, publications and social media posts with the phrase.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Corporate communications increasingly feature the phrase “it’s not just X, it’s Y,” a pattern some link to generative AI.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
He said he would help build a new country free of corruption and fear, and he deployed for the first time a phrase that would later become his campaign slogan: “now or never.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
The campaign echoes one launched in 2021 under the Biden administration, called "level up", a phrase used to describe making progress in electronic games.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“That telephone company must still have you on the night shift”—he carries on, saying this phrase like it tastes bad: night shift—“if you managed to take a train in the middle of the day.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing phrase
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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