X
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“A surprising number of people on X think we should take AI rights seriously.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Millennials in their late 30s, for example, earn more than Gen X households did at comparable ages.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
The company said on X that it “will continue to restore additional assets and networks in phases as security checks are completed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
"I don't belong in Abdul's campaign," she said in a video posted to X shortly after that appearance.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
We faced a fork in the road one decade after Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were laid to rest.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
"The approved measures will enable researchers, civil society and the general public to gain more transparency into X’s systems and the impact on users," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Apparently the NHL was initially unaware of this addition, and the elder Pocklington’s name was later covered with a row of X’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
It only takes a minute or two to generate a fake video of a real person using a chatbot like X’s Grok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
My mind jumped back to the kids outside, to the colored X’s on the back of their shirts.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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If you have trouble following, there are many Philadelphians who will explain, having had the Xs and Os of the playbook tattooed on their skin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The TikToks, Instagrams, and Xs of the world would rather nobody be worried about screen time at all, even as a few of those apps allow users to set their own limits.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
It is often called a violent chess match, and if you have ever seen inside a playbook and seen each play drawn up in Xs and Os fashion, you would have to agree.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
To Sirianni, Kehres was much more than a guy with a whistle, or someone who could draw up Xs and O’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
Criteria like this can be used to determine how likely it is that sequences of heads and tails or Xs and Os or hits and misses are randomly generated.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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But there are other cases in which scholars can only guess about the origins of x’s role, such as the phrase “X marks the spot.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2023
The term tweets will also be changed to "x's", according to Mr Musk.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
Nearby in a tent, 30-ish chairs sat on spaced out yellow x’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
Note that removing the x’s from x +x 5 would be like cancelling the 2’s in the fraction 2 + 5 !
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Shadrach studied his sketch and added a row of x’s to represent the Confederates.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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Then follow "the names of those who were served with this writt, and who most willingly obeyed upon the receipt thereof," contributing altogether xvili xs 0.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
They imprint certain cabalistic tokens of ownership on the logs,--crosses, xs, stars, crescents, alphabetical letters,--marks respected all along the rivers and lakes down to the boom where the sticks are garnered for market.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
Paide the smythe for making a new clapper for the great bell, xs.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
Item for the Tretys of Werre in iiij. books, which conteyneth lx. levis, after ijd. a leaff xs.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
So he said "Didn't you never correspond with a girl and put some of them xs down to the bottom of your letter?"
From The Real Dope by Ring Lardner
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