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For locals who want, or need, a car, the high prices are getting tough to swallow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Losing Stewart for longer than that would be a bitter pill for USC to swallow at the start of a highly anticipated season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Whatever solutions Bessent or lawmakers agree on, longtime budget watchers see a tough pill for Americans to swallow.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Furthermore, if anyone asks you the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, the proper answer is “African or European?”

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

My whole body screamed for water and my throat was so dry I had to jiggle my Adam’s apple three or four times before I could swallow.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

In “Rare Bird” a woman in 18th-century England finds pleasure in the company of a new friend, who helps her test a claim from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus that swallows hibernate underwater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

We learned about the annual return of swallows, admired blooming roses and citrus trees and absorbed a simple story: Spanish conquistadors and Catholic priests tamed a wild land, and we should follow their example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

"In most of those cases, what happens is the supermarket swallows those losses. And that impacts their margins," she says.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

As Big Tech swallows the world, the long-standing narrative about the future of streaming goes something like this:

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2025

I lay on my back and watched a pair of swallows racing up and down the river, tumbling like acrobats in pursuit of invisible bugs.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Within seconds, it swallowed the cluster of buildings where the 34-year-old lived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Days of intense waves fueled by Hurricane Marie far away in the Pacific left several sections of the boardwalk completely destroyed after massive swells swallowed protective sand berms and slammed through the seawall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

"I have swallowed more dust than bread," he said in his living room, as he showed the stoma bag he now has to use.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

“A churning wall of mud, trees, and debris swallowed Camp Baker, overturning bulldozers and trucks like toys,” said duBeth.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

One of their most important responsibilities is swallowing senescent cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Americans eat twice as much chicken today as they did in the 1970s, and fast-food places focusing specifically on chicken began swallowing truly staggering amounts of market share.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The latest eclipse was my third time swallowing the expense and impracticality of following them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Along the disused line from Woljeong-ri towards Baengmagoji station to the south -- the section to be restored under the peace project -- vegetation crowds both sides of the tracks, nearly swallowing a stone wall.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Instead, their faces were puckering and shriveling, their fur collars almost swallowing their heads.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin