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The court described the tragedy as caused by "individuals driven by greed, with utter disregard for human life".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Molly said the whole family were in "complete utter shock" at the 7lb arrival.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The utter silence of that room as he spoke, the admiration on all those famous faces said it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
He was not particularly political, he said, and declined to even utter Trump’s name during my visit.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Mad to believe your word alone! The price must be silence, utter silence!”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
One wonderfully executed sequence, in which Jonathan’s aunt calmly utters uncomfortable truths to the hypocritical and insensitive diners around her, is shocking and hilarious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In it he utters what is now one of cinema's most famous lines.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
At one point, the Parliament-Funkadelic leader utters, “bow wow wow, yippie yo yippie yay” — a line from his 1982 solo hit “Atomic Dog” that Snoop has used in multiple songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
"Brilliant," is one word that nearly every single England fan I speak to utters as I call out to them outside the stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
“It stinks,” she utters, turning to the waters.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The saying is one of his favorite maxims, but it hasn’t been uttered by any other world leader for centuries.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Later, the first words he uttered on radio were about not going "overboard" after back-to-back wins against their city rivals.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He consulted with an array of doctors throughout the Central Valley and interviewed county officials, often hitting dead ends the moment he uttered “union” or “farmworkers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"It's crazy!" uttered a woman as the crowd beside suddenly burst into enthusiastic applause.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Such prayers could rise no higher than the lips that uttered them.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
“I went to that place,” Tucci said, avoiding uttering the chain’s name aloud.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Nearly 300 episodes, which aired during the 1990s and 2000s, showed the hapless, accident-prone brothers uttering their catchphrase "To me, to you" as they caused chaos everywhere they went.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Without uttering a word, they portray the nurses bustling behind doctors in the hit series "The Pitt," the agents guarding a crime scene in "NCIS" or, like Armella, work as "stand-ins" for stars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
“Moving on to something a bit more important,” Fox proceeded, but not before uttering, “although it was an important part of my life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
The man was looking around helplessly, raising his hands, lowering them again, uttering little cries.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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