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She looked down and read nervously from a script, took just three questions and embarrassingly mixed up references to “her husband” and “her president.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The episode was "a good reminder that you can't believe everything you read on the internet," Talarico said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I think we could feel it when we first read the script."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
To get Chris Stansbury’s perspective, read on here with Walden Siew, in today’s Morning Ledger newsletter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Father . . . the letter glittered in the criss-cross light as I read the rest.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Rather, it reads with the cadence of a PI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It only reads CVs in the later stages of the hiring process and uses skills and behaviour-based online assessments and video interviews to better assess candidates' skills.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
A veteran almost always reads this novel with different eyes than others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
A structure called the ribosome then reads the RNA sequence three letters at a time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The text reads, Happy Fourth to my favorite sister, my favorite bro-in-law, and my favorite niece!
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
I don’t know what to say other than I’m glad it’s reading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Investors should also resist reading it as a promise of 40% lower costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
After reading the weird A.I. translation, a Bengali speaker said it would make them question whether they could trust the clinic—or the doctor who handed it to them—at all.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The reading was the highest in five months and saw investors push up bets on a second-successive rate hike this month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the end of the school day, she spends her time reading to blind patients, or to those who never learned how to read.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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