everybody
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“Nobody buys a gallon of diesel for their kitchen, and everybody pays for it anyway,” said Rob Carpenter, founder and chief intelligence officer at Tea Technologies, which runs a trucking safety and risk platform.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
I took it like I was a big brother to everybody, and the result was, they kept bringing me back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
By now everybody in defense knows about the global shortage of Patriots and other high-end interceptors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Its determination, allowing an orange parade down the Garvaghy Road for the first time in 28 years, caught everybody by surprise, including those in the loyal order.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But when you make your eyes into slits, everything gets blurry, so everybody on that bus became blurry nobodies.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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