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“And if they do, I’m gonna tell them they’re silly. It’s not a good way to make decisions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
They’ll have to tell their sources: “It’s off the record, non-Woodward rules.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
He said he had to "effectively tell him what to do the whole time" and that Chowdhury kept his camera off during video calls for four months, claiming technical problems.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
What the October CPI won’t tell investors — officially, that is — is how much inflation has risen in the past 12 months.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Father Torralba encouraged Joey to tell Marie Dachauer all about Tala, and that’s just what Joey does.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“That’s how you lose credibility,” former Baxter International CEO Harry Kraemer Jr. tells the WSJ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Developer Sports Interactive tells BBC Newsbeat it's part of wider efforts to make the game "as inclusive as possible".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Some may try to strengthen this objection by arguing that, when deciding between the judgment of the market and the judgment of an academic model, Finance 101 tells us to follow the former.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Most of the sources written about in ‘Secrets’ are deceased,” he tells us, a fact of immense convenience to an author who is out to break a covenant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
“You know what? I feel sorry for you, Grace,” she finally tells me, her voice somehow hard and squeaky at the same time.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Cottage Health, which operates the hospital, told CBS it had seen "a larger than expected number of emergency visits" from those who ran the race.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
She told me it’s a good idea to prepare some warm-up prompts or questions to get things going.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
“It’s going to be a big, beautiful agreement, and everyone’s going to be thrilled,” he told reporters in the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
“Ninety-nine percent of our clientele are people moving from California,” Bailey told The Times in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
I wasn’t happy when he told me that his orientation was the same day as the meet.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Khawaja has also explained that much of his motivation for telling this story comes from loyalty to his childhood friend Warner.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Now he’s exclusively telling MarketWatch’s Joseph Adinolfi that he has spotted similar warning signs involving other companies.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Motor neurons are specialized nerve cells that transmit signals to muscles, telling them when to contract and produce movement.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026
Analysts Ailsa Lei and Lucy Huang stay neutral on the stock, telling clients in a note that the update was solid and showed slightly better-than-expected revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Father and Caesar talk, murmuring, telling tales of when they were boys.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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