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• Well, that is one of the things that has changed in the last couple of years.
  — 5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Look at all the lies he's told over the last couple of weeks.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The storm that’s been hitting the Earth the last couple of days has reached G5.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 May 2024
• That area has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
• Over the last couple of months, the race has been at a standstill.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
• Jones has not been the same player in the last couple of years, though.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Just start out, what have our strikes achieved over the last couple of days?
  — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Sure, the Cowboys have won a lot of games over the last couple of years, and it’s been fun.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• And the switch has been happening for the last couple of years.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
• Yet he’s only seen one truck go through the area in the last couple of days.
  — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
• Two things that have changed in the last couple of decades are contributing to the threat.
  — Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
• The one that’s been coming up the most in the last couple of weeks is on the inpatient side.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• He’s spent far too long for the last couple of years being sad.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Will there be a theme to it, like the previous couple of tours?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
• The race was tight and Huske was trailing until the last couple of mighty strokes.
  — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• And that is something that Ida’s taken me to task for a lot over the last couple of years.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• But it’s been a fun story to tell at parties the last couple of nights.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• With [Nathan’s] new sobriety over the last couple of years, that was a big shift on the whole group.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
• And so that's really been the target of a lot of these attacks in the last couple of years.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• But it's been rising steadily over the last couple of years.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Over the last couple of years, Ngannou switched over to the sweet science: boxing.
  — Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• And that became a huge firestorm of criticism for Google over the last couple of weeks.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
• Teachers over the last couple of years have gone on wildcat strikes.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• But its lukewarm support for Assad in the last couple of weeks failed to keep the rebels at bay.
  — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
• For me, The Masked Singer is really the glue that held me together for the last couple of months.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Sorry for the sporadic posting the last couple of months.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Has anyone reached out over the last couple of months suspecting you guys were on the show?
  — Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• The Ultra is the only model that saw a small price increase over the last couple of years.
  — PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
• The cause is the same as the last couple of delays: a leak of helium from the craft’s service module.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 May 2024
• Coresight is forecasting 5,800 store openings this year, nearly in line with the last couple of years.
  — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025