straight
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While the friend ran straight up the mountain, Prabin dashed diagonally across, putting him in the flood’s path.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They have won seven straight, giving up only 25 points in the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Having to pay the person who's actively put you through all of that anguish only for it to happen straight away again."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Jonah pops up, his face extra red and his posture extra straight.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The finished bowl is bright enough to make you sit up a little straighter.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
I lifted several doors off their hinges in our house last month to refinish the hardware and hang them straighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Officers "stood up faster and straighter when he entered a room" and Zhang "wasn't afraid to talk to foreigners", Thompson wrote in a Substack post about his encounter.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
“He talks very slowly, but he’s brilliant. I think the straighter and more serious they are, the more it tickles me,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
She had a compact body, a straight back that looked straighter in her stiff orange-print dress, the body of a questioner whom one dared not question back.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
England's plan to Gill was clear after his success at Headingley: their lines were the straightest they have bowled at a batter in 16 years as the pace bowlers targeted the pads.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
The Second City-trained Chicagoan is up for his first Emmy, though, as the straightest shooter in the wackazoid cast of “Fargo’s” fifth season: North Dakota state trooper Witt Farr.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
It wasn’t the straightest path and there were times when Crawford and the Mariners wondered if he’d ever grow into all that was expected.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
He’s the straightest cat you will ever meet.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023
“That said, do not presume to change a word of what I say. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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