X
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They spent $1,500 for two seats StubHub described as Section X, Row 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a post on X that the company could support up to 25% of an investment on a case-by-case basis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier posted his gratitude to firefighters and first responders on X, thanking them for "working tirelessly to keep people safe."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Then, days before the committee vote, he posted two orders on X, one rescinding the fund and one “clarifying” the immunity’s scope.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
His suspenders made a black X across his back.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
"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
Linda Yaccarino, X's former chief executive, was also summoned to a voluntary interview in Paris alongside Musk in April - having been in her role during the period prosecutors said suspected offences occurred.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
It’s still Xs and O’s and finding the right schemes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
It looks like a bad pirate’s map with Xs marked for the treasure.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
Once the guppies turn into x's and y’s, my contacts fog.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
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
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
