mark my words
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“You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” Jeanine Pirro said in an appearance on her old stomping grounds at Fox News.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2026
We’re going to end cancer as we know it, mark my words.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Sooner or later, we'll definitely get a live-action Miles Morales movie, mark my words.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
"I couldn't control my excitement actually. I went back to her and said, 'You are going to be on this and you will get better, mark my words.'"
From BBC • May 30, 2020
If you think you are ugly, you will be ugly, mark my words.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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