everybody
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In the rock band, I’m competing — everybody wants to be heard — whereas this one, there’s this beautiful thing where the guys don’t mind being in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“For everybody else, before the end of the month. We have this expression: Flu before ‘boo’ for Halloween.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The next morning, there were shocked faces when the players realised everybody had made it to breakfast unscathed, with the celebrities concluding that one player must have been recruited.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Long before Urschel became an assistant professor at MIT studying matrices, spectral graph theory and other subjects that sound like gibberish to just about everybody, he was an overachieving kid attending Penn State.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Three hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that anger was controlled by the spleen.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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