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Schumacher concludes that the "vast majority" of police officers "are doing the best they can - and sometimes their best mightn't be that great, but they're trying their best".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
“There mightn’t be immediate impact,” the 52-year-old said last week as he oversaw workers baking bread in his shop in Cairo, “but if they didn’t find a solution soonest, things would be very difficult.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
“We mightn’t be agreed on theology — but we are agreed on bread.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Nothing's all black, but then nothing's all white How do you say it will all be all right When you know that it mightn't be true?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
“To ask if I mightn’t go to the islands with you.”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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