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“You’re right, it was beautiful,” he told her, “but to what end?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The back-and-forth between Taylor Farms and regulators is the latest wrinkle that consumers have to navigate while they figure out what’s safe to eat right now.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Once we realized these guys could do it for real, they got excited about it. They would just drag this thing right up over the dunes. It was incredible,” Nolan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
It is whether in some cities, there are communities of different culture, ethnicity and even language, residing right next to each other but living totally separate lives.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The iron damages the left hemisphere more than the right, the front of the frontal cortex more than the back, the underside more than the top.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
It has also used such “sole-source” and “limited-source” awards, which are not publicly announced, in highly sensitive countries where openly working on human rights can be dangerous.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
They also said the administration has serious concerns about the human rights situation in South Africa that need to be addressed.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
David Anthony Rodriguez, 45, of La Verne, pleaded guilty in July 2025 to a count of conspiracy against rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
What U.S. media rights to the 2030 and 2034 World Cup tournaments could fetch, according to some TV and media executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
There was still a question concerning money due Bobby from the company that had purchased the television rights to the match—some $1 million.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The time has never been righter, it seems to me.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Cat burglar, con artist, master of disguise, Lupin is also a brilliant detective and righter of wrongs.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2021
“As a solver of mysteries and a righter of historical wrongs, I live for this stuff,” Zax said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Nevertheless, we still tend to fixate on the things they got right, often with fingers crossed, dreaming that their thoughts might help us make the world righter still.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"I don't fancy her chances much either way," said everyone else, and they were probably the rightest of all.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah, yes, love, it is right,—the rightest right that ever was!
From A Roman Singer by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
“Mother,” she said with a woebegone face, “why do the rightest things always be the hardest ones?”
From A Dear Little Girl at School by Blanchard, Amy Ella
A thrift-store find some years later righted things: an Art Deco wonder with a ceramic face housed in wood marquetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Yamamoto righted himself by retiring the next 11 batters he faced, but the Dodgers lost for the third time in four games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
At eight o’clock, the ship suddenly righted itself again and floated free.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
“The quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Then, toward the end of the decade, Superman came on the scene as a comic-book hero devoted to righting wrongs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
We’re talking about Derpy Tiger, an oversized blue cat with glowing yellow eyes, a snaggletooth grin and a penchant for righting overturned vessels.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
In response, the Home Office said it was "committed to righting the wrongs of Windrush".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
He kept walking, slipping on rocks here and there, righting himself, slipping again, walking, walking, walking.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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