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“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
“There was near-unanimous agreement among cricket commentators that losing Khawaja mightn’t be such a bad thing,” says Joe Roberts.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2019
If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator then mightn't they “tell” the Hound...?
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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