dare say
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The fact that we’ve come around and, by the end of the show, I can’t even say back where we started, I dare say we are worse than where we started.
From Los Angeles Times
What these justices would never dare say is that they sit on the court today because they mastered a game that David Souter would not play.
From Salon
No-one serious about their future in Labour Party politics would dare say that in public about the mercurial former chief adviser to Boris Johnson.
From BBC
So fervid was the excitement that many local news sites published guides to public election parties, where Bay Area residents could go celebrate or — though no one would dare say it — mourn the results.
From Los Angeles Times
"I thought it was un-Conservative, un-British, if one dare say in a secular society, un-Christian, and unconscionable and I thought that this is really not the way to treat people," he said.
From BBC
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