X
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Headquarters, formerly known as Kamala HQ on X, posted a side-by-side composite of Ossoff and El-Sayed last month with the caption: “There are 69 days until midterm election day.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Two ads promoting Converse’s global Chuck 70 X campaign came under fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
That dropped roughly 10 percentage points for Gen X and another 10 points for baby boomers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
This tallies with what frontman Liam Gallagher posted on X last month, in response to one fan-site noting they were bookmakers' favourites to headline the festival.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He nudged me, and I looked down at the dirt, where he had drawn a crude map of the perimeter of the camp, an X marked in the southeast corner, farthest from the guard tower.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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At least one post has since been removed for violating X's rules.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
A separate investigation into X’s handling of illegal content and information manipulation is ongoing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
MT: How do you feel about Gen X’s legacy as basically the coolest generation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
He drew a square for the cabin and X’s around it, where the stones were.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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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
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
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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
Mr Musk says "tweets" will be replaced too, with posts to be called "x's" instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
But each entry on the list is a 20-character string of numbers and letters followed by a lot of x’s.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
Nearby in a tent, 30-ish chairs sat on spaced out yellow x’s.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
Once the guppies turn into x's and y’s, my contacts fog.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
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
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