yes
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"There was so much momentum and I was saying yes to far too many things," she reflects now.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He has a trim mustache and beard, yes, but the actor, who spends a significant portion of the play shirtless, has nary a hair on his sharply chiseled chest and big-gun biceps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"There are dark chapters in history that we must nevertheless be aware of. And yes, history undoubtedly repeats itself," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
If, by “safe,” you mean there is little risk you won’t get paid in full and on time, then yes — Treasury bonds are considered safe by most people.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
I look at her cell, and yes, there are some names I recognize, because they have some ego-driven usernames that they mix in with the instrument they play.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But the reality is that celebrating these special days is expensive — and seven yeses add up pretty quickly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The choir got a standing ovation and four yeses from the judges after performing Never Enough from The Greatest Showman.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Speculations have varied from hard yeses to a rainbow of bargaining; maybe in 2016, but definitely not in 2020 or 2024.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
Kentridge brings it to America thirsting for even less good yeses and noes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
My job was to stand there, shake hands, and throw out yeses and noes as needed.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed.
From Time Magazine Archive
As this remark, adequately yessed, had been on the tip of Mr. Gilbert's tongue, he could not be blamed for rather abruptly changing the subject.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite.
From Time Magazine Archive
His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable.
From Time Magazine Archive
My grandfather had been wrong about yessing them to death and destruction or else things had changed too much since his day.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
I started yessing them the next day and it began beautifully.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
