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• Both also score more than 41 points a game, so something has to give.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• My youngest loves Disney movies and my eldest is obsessed with Stranger Things, but something has got to give.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• In the battle of the boardroom versus the bedroom, something has to give come September.
  — Matthew Boyle, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• When one of the nation’s top offenses (Baylor) meets the Big 12′s best defense (Iowa State), something has to give.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The three victories are tied for second in the league behind the San Diego Wave, but the four goals are tied for second-worst, meaning something has to give.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• Soaring prices for all sorts of items from gas at the pump to airline tickets to food chip away at your spending power — and something has to give somewhere.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
• Many economists believe something has to give this year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
• No, that fate is reserved for another of Liza’s acquaintances (something has to give her a conscience).
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• A couple dollars more a month normally isn’t enough to move the needle, but when Americans are facing the fastest inflation in 40 years, something has got to give.
  — Molly Smith, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• But as the company expands into new product categories, something has to give.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 May 2022
• When that goes on indefinitely, something has to give: The higher-wage work gets neglected or the higher-wage earners get burned out trying to cover two jobs.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• But Williams is the wife in this scenario, and when faced with having to balance motherhood and a profession as demanding as a professional athlete, something has to give.
  — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• In the Maryland cafe, named for a cigarette brand that is no more, the prevailing view is that something has to give in a France that has lost its way under a president too privileged and remote to know anything of the burden of struggle.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Clearly, something has to give if the power maximum isn't changing, and that comes in the form of a massive new chassis, now requiring three full PCI-e slots of space in your preferred gaming case, along with additional length.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
• Increasing autocracy is colliding with a dynamic economy, and something has to give.
  — Stephen Roach, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024