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Not everyone is ready to join the app bandwagon just yet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
So is he getting the cellblock at Rikers Island ready for an incoming VIP?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"At the end, if you have a fully fit, healthy Conor Bradley, we are very happy, ready to go and we would not be asking ourselves these questions," explained the Spaniard.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
He wanted to reach that target by 2030, the year when many in Nato have said the alliance must be ready for conflict.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“He keeps saying he wants to tell you something. . . . He says he’s ready to think of himself less.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Depending on the expertise and equipment at a given location, however, many patients in Germany currently have readier access to CSF analysis than to amyloid PET.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
For instance, clinical malaria is known to exhaust T cells, he says, and vaccination, by preventing infection, might therefore leave T cells readier to combat other pathogens.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 23, 2023
I’m readier than I might have been in 2021, when “Sweatshop Overlord” had its premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, to collectively process the recent traumatic cascade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
I feel I’m much readier for it this time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
The antelope were more wary, the birds readier to take flight.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Moore might not just be the best high school quarterback in the nation but also the readiest for the college game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Reid has been with the Seahawks the longest, playing in the final preseason game, and Carroll said he is the readiest to contribute as a result.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
The readiest way to make sense of him—and to hold at arm's length the pathology that overshadowed and overpowered and informed his genius—is to approach him as some kind of martyr.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2013
Our dialects are often the weapon readiest to hand in that fight.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2012
His first proposition and request, that the dance begun at Mr. Cole’s should be finished there—that the same party should be collected, and the same musician engaged, met with the readiest acquiescence.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
On the beach in Gaza City, the trio laid out their boards on the sand while they warmed up their limbs and readied their gear.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
A female quartet readied to play mariachi standards as Anamaria greeted well wishers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Luna then coordinated with Leger Fernández, who had readied an expulsion resolution against Gonzales, to force out the pair almost simultaneously.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Whether or not they will actually go ahead has yet to be confirmed, but the city has readied itself all the same.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Her sound in the kitchen gave me the courage I needed to leap out of bed and into the freshly pressed clothes my mother had readied for me.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
That is because countries across the globe are readying to shore up oil stockpiles like never before, which should keep the market tight for quite a while.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Michoacán is known for its annual Day of the Dead celebrations, and Manzo had spent weeks readying the city’s festival of lights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Leading into the Masters, Rose made a schedule switch, dropping his original plan to play last week's Texas Open to concentrate on readying himself for the demands of Augusta.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
According to Sheetal Sapale, vice-president at research firm Pharmarack, major firms including Cipla, Sun Pharma, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Biocon, Natco, Zydus and Mankind Pharma are readying branded generics, with many more likely to follow.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Her frown deepened when she discovered the Captain of the Guard smirking as they walked into the fray of the readying company.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas