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mark my words

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  1. Pay attention to what I say, as in Mark my words, that man is not to be trusted. This admonition first appeared in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Isaiah 28:23).


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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

We’re going to end cancer as we know it, mark my words.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

"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

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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