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Fox Sports announcer Tom Brady might have spoken for all of us when viewing the play in which Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels dislocated his left elbow Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"The truth and the facts have spoken for themselves and here we are," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
If the money is already spoken for, especially if it’s intended for essentials, “then it’s not a reasonable decision to spend $1,000 on sporting tickets,” Christine Hargrove, a financial therapist in Athens, Ga., told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
All of this year’s supply is spoken for, and 2027 order books are getting close to full.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
After we had spoken for a while Clement took me out of his office and into INPA’s experimental forest.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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