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• What Michaels was talking about was that, at a certain point, the show got away from him.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
• For me, this just meant pushing forward with a certain topic.
  — John Ruwitch, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
• De Noire and her colleagues don't even request or suggest that the women come in at a certain time.
  — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
• Players also must sign for a certain amount of money on a per-year basis to factor into the formula.
  — Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
• Potential landlords cannot charge more than a certain percentage above a federal rent payment standard.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Once players break through a certain point, like a prologue or tutorial, developers demand payment to unlock the rest of the game.
  — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
• There’s a certain seductive logic to the argument Hoult’s anguished protagonist makes for letting someone take the fall for his mistake.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
• Both teams get to come to the rink with a certain amount of freedom, right?
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 24 June 2024
• But at a certain point, often around 1 in the morning, comes a lull in the marathon.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• But there’s a certain amount of neo-noir Tokyo 1999 style that was kind of baked into the script.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• If the child is used to a certain night-light or a sound machine, these can be brought along as well.
  — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
• Does this mean that LaPaglia couldn’t talk about Bryan for a certain amount of time?
  — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• The posters dotting the streets of Buenos Aires had a certain Soviet flare to them.
  — Lucía Cholakian Herrera, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Loose pucks The Capitals will have a certain piece in the lineup that was not there in the B’s strong 4-1 win over the Caps.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2024
• Setting aside a certain day or time to give your car a quick tidy can take you far in that aim.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
• There’s one room that smells a certain way that leads into the other room.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2023
• Perhaps a note-to-self in disguise, but try not to get too attached to a certain brand.
  — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2024
• Denver had the game on his foot — and in the care of the field goal protection group — and saw a certain win vanish in a flash of red.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
• Ships as large as the Dali must maintain a certain speed to avoid being pushed around by winds and currents.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2024
• There’s a certain wistful loveliness in all of that, the mind drifting to what could have been.
  — Michael Bamberger, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• That feature also comes in handy when trying to find a certain item in your bag.
  — Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2024
• After a certain amount of time, my body still was not responding to the treatment.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2024
• Warm weather does not delay the rut any more than a certain moon phase kicks it into gear.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
• And every cook has been trained to cook everything a certain way.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• While there’s not always a direct cause, it can be caused by excess oils or a certain type of yeast.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
• None of the alerts’ criteria require a person to have been missing for a certain amount of time.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• Cards start players off by making a certain shape, and players have to use their wits to see how the rest of the pieces fit in to complete the puzzle.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2023
• For example, a cash gift to a food bank might provide a certain amount of meals to those who can’t afford them.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• The venture was structured as a time share, giving each partner a right to use it a certain number of days.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Among the big additions to the product are a sleep timer, which will let users set a timer to pause videos after a certain amount of viewing.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Feb 2025