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In one email, Stephenson wrote, “the evidence the holdovers screenplay has been plagiarised line-by-line from frisco is genuinely overwhelming - anybody who looks at even the briefest sample pretty much invariably uses the word ‘brazen.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

One-hundred years of monthly returns, adjusted for inflation, seems a pretty good sample, especially in an era when venture capitalists and Wall Street frequently refer to 10 or 20 years as “long term.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Anthony Cheetham and Ram Seshadri went through a random sample of the supposed new crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

That’s down from 158 commercials across 16 games three years ago, before a matchup in the sample migrated to streaming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

We each get to sample it just before she puts it in the refrigerator to chill.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

No longer just events where designers use trunks full of samples to sell preorders, many combine the instant gratification of off-the-rack shopping with exclusive locations—private homes, hotels, yachts—and free perks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Paul Silver, chief executive of developer Dorchester Living, said separate soil samples taken from residential areas showed the area was "safe for use".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Researchers first collected plaque samples using cotton swabs on one side of each participant's mouth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The Civil Guard has set up four offices in the cities of Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba and Seville to enable relatives of the victims to provide DNA samples and help identify the missing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Could my granddaughter, Cat, and I get some samples? She needs a big Gingerbread Island welcome, so I think it would be best for her to have a sample of every flavor.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

A flat piece of fried dough typically topped with sour cream, garlic and grated cheese, ordinary lángos is best sampled at the city’s market halls, for 1/100th the price of Stand’s tasting menu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

M. trumani and every felid lineage sampled in the study lacked a functional gene responsible for producing a receptor involved in detecting sour tastes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

TikTok food‑and‑drink creator Natalie Ludwig, who has more than 500,000 followers, has sampled Dunkin's cold drinks.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Perry and her partner, Canada's former prime minister Justin Trudeau, sampled the delights of Mykonos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Idly Cluny picked up a bowl of honeyed milk and sampled it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“The sampling of Vera Rubin is just going incredibly well,” Huang said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Smaller bowls encourage sampling; larger ones let guests settle in with their favorites.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

That combination of detailed diet records and daily biological sampling made the project one of the largest and most detailed studies of its kind to date.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nothing that doesn’t look like a random sampling from the Housewares Department of the Eaton’s Catalogue.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood