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A rural Ohio newspaperman who had risen to U.S. senator, Harding was a reluctant compromise candidate during the 1920 Republican convention in Chicago, emerging from a proverbially smoke-filled room.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Defensive end Calijah Kancey's cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2021
A judge would later find Chapman not guilty of manslaughter, but note sadly that “hindsight is proverbially better than foresight.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2021
That acknowledgment of darkness and past trauma made Chromatica an appropriate mood for a year that, proverbially speaking, wouldn’t stop raining on us.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2020
Everyone knew everyone, proverbially, and, in the case of the Shaws, it was probably closer to literally.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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