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Dr. Gruber also said that FDA officials had opined that “absent a license, states cannot require mandatory vaccination” while raising concerns about the rise in COVID-19 cases.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Decades earlier, she had opined that “the greatest writing is omnisexual, like Shakespeare.”

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2022

Writing for the majority, Scalia had opined that among the advantages of a handgun, “it can be pointed at a burglar with one hand while the other hand dials the police.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

They had opined too much, or their questions had been too narrow, or they had lost track of the order.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019

Thus the novel "filled more pages" than Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham had "opined," and hence comes a languor which does not beset the story of "Old Mortality."

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir