make it with
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“If you don’t have basil, you can make it with parsley, even carrot tops,” Chavez says.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
"The brave fella thought he's not going to make it with a life jacket on, so he ditched it, and he swam the next two hours without a life jacket."
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
Earlier they had been treated to two exceptional performances by horses that, all being well, will make it with The Jukebox Man to the Cheltenham Festival next March.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
“I am not going to sign on to something if I can’t make it with scientific certainty,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
How could she possibly make it with that belligerent girl along?
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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