have no business
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“If I can’t stand up here and answer a tough question, then I have no business running the state.”
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
We have no business running a private school.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Do I think it’s justified? I think it’s completely justified. We sitting in the courtroom have no business to judge what Proctor and Kawahara were thinking that night,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Fury described the pair as "finished," suggesting that if he showed even a fraction of that decline, he would have no business being in the ring.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Didn’t have no business there, disrespectin’ the dead.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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