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AI writing seems off, and not just because of its reliance on “it’s not X, it’s Y” constructions or my beloved em dashes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Professor X has previously been played by Sir Patrick Stewart in other Marvel movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

"Political prisoner Emirlendris Benitez and five other women have been released," Foro Penal director Alfredo Romero said on X.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

I am not a fan,” reads one post on X.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

When Mrs. Lopez told us to sit quietly and solve for X, I peeked at my phone.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket is a reusable model and has been sent into space on several missions.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

MT: How do you feel about Gen X’s legacy as basically the coolest generation?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

He said X's commitments were "a step forward, but there's a lot more to do".

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Trump is joined in China by an entourage of chief executives, including X’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Apple’s Tim Cook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

But before he spoke he picked up a piece of yellow chalk and drew five X’s and O’s up on the board.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The book also says when to try for a 2-point conversion, whether to attempt an onside kick or to kick deep and how to manage the two-minute warning—nearly everything outside of Xs and Os.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

“Dawn Staley knows that it takes more than Xs and Os to win games,” basketball analyst Christy Winters-Scott said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

There were little Xs by all the fire alarm boxes around town.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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

Mr Musk says "tweets" will be replaced too, with posts to be called "x's" instead.

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

My answer'd died in the second line of x's and y's and squareds.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

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

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