tell

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Tell people to write a poem and they’ll mostly write garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Another set of tablets comes from excavations at Tell Shemshara in 1957, located in what is now northern Iraq.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Kelly: Tell us what that's like - because, as you said, as football fans we hear a lot about it because it's produced some fantastic players.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Tell him what he wants to hear, give him gifts and name things after him, and you will be much more likely to get what you want.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Old William Tell himself couldn’t have shot any straighter than I did.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls