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I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

Lauret Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was kind of a last minute thing, but he was an active participant.

Deputy Chief Dan Netemeyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once a monopoly begins to grow, it becomes a thing that goes on its own, amazon starts off as the dominant book delivery service. And then it starts morphing into other products and becomes the dominant delivery service. Now it's like a monster that has to be fed every minute.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most, MOST important thing is to read, read all the time ; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the dentist's waiting room. Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read.

Gary Paulsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've all had bad days, the minute a dog walks into a room, even for a minute, you kind of forget about it.

Jeffrey Albanese

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We originally were going to do a Nirvana song and then like, we were kind of goofing around and you know, like doing ‘Jolene,’ it was like, wait a minute. What if we actually did Jolene?

Lil Nas X

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The minute we found this home, I loved it, it was everything I envisioned for my family and for raising my kids in a nice, quiet neighborhood.

Jannique Martinez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One minute, they'd be all over each other, the next minute, he'd be like, 'We're fighting,'.

Ben Matula

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can see someone, talk to someone, and in a minute, they are not here anymore. You have to cherish every moment you have with the people you love.

Victoria Gwynn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I run over and we wrestled a minute together, me trying to get the gun away from him, then the gun kind of went off above his head and I got scared to death and I ran to my truck and took off.

Curtis Edward Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you procrastinate, you tend to be reactive and wait until the very last minute and then the quality of the work becomes just a checklist just to get it done, compared to' I do this because I have pride in doing this.... I care about the results. Now the shift is :' I need to do just enough so I don't get into trouble.'.

Foram Sheth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you are a gerrymanderer, you are going to wait until the last minute.

Nathaniel Persily

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I called 311 and she thought I was crazy, she thought I was crazy. She paused for a long minute. I said, 'Ma’am, I am not drinking. I have not had any drugs. I have Zebras in my backyard walking on the train tracks. I just wanted to know what service could come out because I didn’t want them to get hit and she paused for a long time and then said, 'Okay, here's the number.

Reed Curling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is an attempt to save face by the administration for the Americans they left behind. This is a woman with three children from age 15 all the way down to two-years-old. And they did nothing to try to expedite this… But at the very last minute you have these ‘senior officials’ at the State Department trying to claim credit for this like ‘oh yeah look what we've done,' it's like we carried the ball to the 99-and-a-half yard line and them taking it that last half yard and being like ‘look what we did.’.

Cory Mills

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He did a great job at the last minute coming in there and throwing the ball around and whipping it around and so you know we’re really confident with him and then you know what we do more than anything else and that’s played defense and play special teams.

Roy Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every minute that he was refused an ICU bed he was dying. The doctors said that his organs were already starting to shut down.

Michelle Puget

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He raised objections to electors from several states in January because he had severe concerns about how the elections were conducted and how laws were changed last-minute to favor Democrats.

Congressman Cawthorn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make no mistake, nobody is writing this off and saying :' Well, we got them, so we don't have to worry about ISIS-K anymore.' Not the case. As I said earlier, the threat stream is still active, still dynamic. We're still laser focused on that and force protection. We aren't thinking for a minute that what happened yesterday gets us in the clear. Not a minute, but do we believe that we hit valid targets, bad guys who can do bad things and plan bad missions ? Absolutely. Do we think that will have some impact on their ability going forward ? Absolutely.

The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I still had about a 25-minute wait time to get to somebody at 2 a.m..

Mark Green

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just had a nearly 40 minute interview with the Los Angeles Times this morning, i am accessible.

Larry Elder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I read that article in my room at [ Kyle Richards' ] house in La Quinta and I was like, wait a minute, this is so much information, that article was like six pages in the L.A. Times, and it also had all of the information that was public record. It was a lot of legal stuff. I just read it by myself three times.

Sutton Stracke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was scared for a minute, but she was so professional and trained and knew what to do in a situation like that. I'm glad she was there, a crazy situation. I'm really not sure what to say, I'm just glad that girl's OK.

Donnie Wiseman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That will raise the issue of annoyance and concern by the vaccinated people, they will say,' Wait a minute, Charlie is here and he's not wearing a mask and we know he's not vaccinated.' People know that sort of stuff about their coworkers.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Dedicate some time, it can be as short as a minute.

Amishi Jha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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