ready

Example Sentences

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“I don’t know if people were quite ready for it at the time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Current uncertain market conditions mean issuers, their bankers and private-equity sponsors need to be ready to accelerate, slow or pause IPO plans, consultants and bankers say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Two years on from the Cancer and Me documentary, she says she is ready to try something different and is interested in doing more presenting.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

I imagined that white girls with waved hair and flaring knee skirts did this sort of thing with their mothers—getting ready for dates, talking about boys.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu