saying
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Soon the menus are stacked, the pebbled Coke cups are sweating rings onto the table and somebody is pointing with a chip while saying, “No, no, tell her the part about —”
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I credit our research group and front office for really looking through this and saying, ‘Are we missing anything?’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
A publican has revealed his anguish at having to close down, saying he has been "crippled" by rising costs and a decline in customer drinking habits.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
San Jose Water Co., which serves about 1 million customers, disputed the group’s findings, saying it used “erroneously aggregated data to perform an analysis that grabs headlines.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Cameron wasn’t trying to say anything more than he was saying.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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“He loved mixing everything together and celebrating life. One of his sayings was, ‘When in doubt, go flat out.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather’s sayings and quotations.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
The Soviet Union was a land of shortages, but there was no shortage of acerbic sayings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
His sayings, “Stay in your lane” and “Speak it into existence,” became national fodder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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