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• And that's just not the way things are going right now.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• Then again, given the way things are going, the guy might drop it.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• Of course, with the way things are going, that could happen.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
• Flores is unlikely to get a job with the way things are going in the NFL.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• But that doesn’t mean that this is a fait accompli that this is the way things are going to be.
  — Joseph R. Biden, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2018
• There are signs that investors aren’t happy about the way things are going.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• In the end, neither the former owners nor the current ones have complaints about the way things are going.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Heck, the way things are going this season, Alabama may not even need to win that game to get in the Playoff.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2021
• All in all, the way things are going, the Rockets likely won’t even have to try to continue losing.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Gallup polls in May found that 39% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing and 18% are satisfied with the way things are going in the country.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 15 June 2023
• In short, a large and growing pool of voters is unhappy with the way things are going in Wisconsin.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
• The world gave me plenty of reasons to exercise my frustration with the way things are going in this country.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2020
• Is there an articulate person among the group who are upset with the way things are going that could step up to a microphone and speak for all the people?
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
• But the way things are going, the biggest challenge facing the Bulldogs might be overconfidence.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 19 Sep. 2022
• At the moment, a large majority of Americans are not happy about the way things are going overall.
  — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
• Similarly, Gallup found that the 22% of Americans who are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. represents one of the lowest levels the firm has ever seen.
  — Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
• Chad Brown, the trainer of Zandon, seems really confident and really happy with the way things are going.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
• Relatedly, 79% were dissatisfied or even angry with the way things are going in the country today.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
• On the other hand, the way things are going, which is effectively to force investors to put their money to work in, financially, a sub-optimal way is, to borrow a word from the woke, problematic.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 July 2021
• Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going hit a nine-year low, Gallup recently reported.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Because there are more policy issues than aspects of life issues measured, this means that, on average, Americans are less satisfied with the way things are going than at any point in the last two decades.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• But there’s been noteworthy slippage in public attitudes about whether colleges and universities are having a positive or negative effect on the way things are going in the country.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• This year’s speechwriters had to balance the president’s desire to point out his administration’s successes with voters’ negative sentiment about the way things are going.
  — Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024