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By the mid-2010s, L.A. officials, including Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti, were declaring they could not “arrest their way out of homelessness,” but ticketing and arrests continued.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

We talked at the beginning about the headlines that were declaring her the most powerful, most important person in the world.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2023

It worked: By 1935, even local newspapers like the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, were declaring that “PINK IS FAVORITE.”

From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2023

By century’s end, even non-economists reviewing mass-market books for nonbusiness publications were declaring that capitalism is great for efficiency but “cannot achieve moral aims.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Everywhere I looked, articles in magazines, newspapers, and online were declaring me America’s best hope to win five gold medals in Rio.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles