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
“You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” she told Fox’s Martha MacCallum on Monday.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026
"I'm still very young, I have so many plans and dreams ahead, but mark my words - I'll be the owner of a big club, for sure," Ronaldo promised during the Globe Soccer Awards ceremony.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
"We are not withdrawing and did not withdraw, if force has closed a door, we will open many doors of hope, mark my words," Tantawi told supporters in Cairo on Friday.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2023
Our goal is to get wands into as many Unremarkable hands as possible, ’cause you mark my words: there’s gon’ come a day when we gon’ need magic to protect us from you Manifestors.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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