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• Some guys have got to figure out how to chase out of the zone less.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2023
• Harry Styles and Nick Kroll have got to be one of the best bromances to come out of 2022.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2022
• Some guys have got to figure out how to make contact better.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2023
• Shaun the Sheep and friends have got to help an alien find her way home after a crash landing near Mossy Bottom Farm in a romp that's fun for the whole family.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 13 Feb. 2023
• The Suns have got to figure that out, but Deandre Ayton isn’t a guy who initiates contact to get the whistle.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• If the wind had been blowing a slightly different direction, we might have got hit.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the Rangers have got to feel swell when their $185 million ace (with a recent track record of injury) can put the wellness discussion to bed with relative ease.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• People who’ve been staring at screens through the pandemic and have got a bit scatty are unlikely to pass our threshold.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• While the majority of New York’s priciest neighborhoods have got a little less expensive of late, that’s not the case for the costliest one.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
• The Suns have got to make the adjustments to Jokic, but with Aaron Gordon, that’s a different situation.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
• Celtic have got a head start on their Scottish Premiership rivals, but other Scottish sides are catching on to the potential of Asia.
  — Steve Price, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2023
• True, manufacturers have got into the habit of revealing their top devices at their own events—but there was still plenty of new tech to tout at MWC 2023.
  — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• So, the communities themselves have got to take some ownership and cool down this violence.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• People in my line of work have got to be very humble about our predictive capabilities.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• In a recent study, scientists have got closer to the answer—and their findings could reverberate long into the future.
  — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
• Teixeira is heading towards the end of his career while Hill is still trying to create a name for himself, so both sides have got a big motivating factor in this one.
  — Catena Media, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
• Over time, Ukraine’s air defenses have improved, and its technicians have got faster at repairing the electrical grid.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Such antics online have got him into hot water with Tesla investors, after the boss was taken to court over posts that boosted and then sank the stock price of the EV manufacturer.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
• Chinese authorities have got to be very careful that, while they are entitled to manage the economy in aspects like data in an appropriate way, the cumulative impression or impact is not off-putting to private investors.
  — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024