yes
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A new study that my colleagues and I conducted suggests the answer could be yes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
"She gives so much growth to the county and the surrounding Appalachia -- economically, yes, but she has also uplifted us spiritually. She's known worldwide for being so kind."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nobody knows, but a reasonable guess would be yes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
And yes, I know this - he doesn't know what is happening.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Back then, yes, of course, I was a victim of a reprehensible system of government.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
“Propositions are a part of the ballot where you don’t have Ds and Rs, you have yeses and nos,” Baldassare said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
As an image of the final object — Verner Panton’s 1990s Vilbert chair — was added atop the pile of yeses, Antonelli appraised the victors and nodded.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
We rise on our yeses and maybes, Then fall on our noes and our buts.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
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
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
No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I started yessing them the next day and it began beautifully.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
