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• After a certain amount of time, my body still was not responding to the treatment.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2024
• Too much policing of stories and being afraid to bring them out because a climate is a certain way is a shame.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
• Other workers pick produce or prune trees for a certain amount of time each week, but, at the end of the day, can go home to the same place and cook dinner or go into town.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The posters dotting the streets of Buenos Aires had a certain Soviet flare to them.
  — Lucía Cholakian Herrera, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To be convicted enough to trade to No. 3 means a certain quarterback has to still be on the board, and there's no way of knowing that quite yet.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2023
• Under a treaty from back in the 1940s, Mexico agreed to give a certain amount of water to the Lower Rio Grande region.
  — Olivianna Calmes, Fox News, 28 May 2024
• If those deposits build up again and hit a certain threshold, patients would start getting the drug again.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 2 July 2024
• Jonah is sweet and sensitive—the kind of boy that a certain kind of girl dreams of holding in a healing embrace.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• And there’s a certain amount of stakes that come with that and responsibility that comes with that.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• There might be a particular form that should go with the letter or be in a certain format.
  — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Her budding romance with a certain NFL star seemed like all anyone could talk about.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• There’s a certain cache that comes with a public company.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• But presence in the index, which began in 1896, comes with a certain level of cachet.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• The Bengals are looking for a certain pedigree in their players.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023
• The decision was made at a certain point that Netflix wanted six episodes.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• This is picked up by a pressure sensor at the end of the tube, and this signal is used to tell the fingers to stop curling once a certain pressure has been reached.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024