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We think of this as the “Buzzy” round, a kind of viewing guide for awards-season followers or just folks who want hot tips for the best stuff on TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
“The fact that 70% of people get their way shows it’s not just folks with an 800 credit score” who can get lower rates.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
He added, “I can pull in not just folks from the right, but also the center and those left of center.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022
That struck me as definitely the predecessor of these influencers and women who clean on YouTube, in that their whole appeal was that they were just folks like you.
From Salon ● May 9, 2021
But it wasn’t just folks back home who stood up and paid attention to what had just happened.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Enter Yael Bridge’s “Big Scary ‘S’ Word,” a stuffed compendium of formulations from experts, historical precedents and just-folks testimonials.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Ellen DeGeneres’s just-folks delivery treated incandescent celebrities as if they were regular people who like eating pizza and being on television.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2014
In keeping with his just-folks, no-frills style, his favorite New York restaurants have been a handful of modest places within a few blocks of his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
That is fine with Dole, who wisecracked his way through the debate and tried to cement his image as a just-folks neighbor from Kansas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The just-folks culture did not originate at Intel--credit Bill Hewlett and David Packard--but Intel perfected the industrial-size version.
From Time Magazine Archive
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