real line
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One senior conservative said: "It was a real line in the sand, we could never have imagined Sir Keir Starmer saying that."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Elsner “suggested ‘Zopf’ because of how the numbers twist around the real line and how, in a sense, my life took a similar twisting journey via mathematics,” Havens says.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
“No one gets to pick on my brother except for me” is a real line that my sister said while defending me from bullies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
There is no real line in the sand that’s been crossed here.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2014
You never get a real line on people until you live with them.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
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