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Speculation soon followed that this effort was in response to the aforementioned test audience confusion, but Cronin shoots down that notion about the last-minute social media campaign.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Apr. 2026 -
And in the comments of her introductory video, her team shoots down every plausible guess.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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George Rose / Getty Images Over the course of his NFL playing days, Jim had 19 interceptions, including picks off the likes of legendary quarterbacks like Len Dawson, Archie Manning and Joe Namath.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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On another night, Notre Dame picks off Reed two or three times.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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An ephemeral wind of nothing that blows away like humbug.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
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If there are heavier, harder-to-blow-away elements around them, planets can form around them, and if there are clumps of matter in the same cloud that haven’t quite grown enough to form stars when the rest of the material in the initial cloud blows away, what remains can be a planet, too.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Apr. 2026
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Both guns the suspect used in the shooting were acquired legally in San Antonio in 2017, Davis said.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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The military seemingly guns her down during a confrontation with Hopper and Eleven.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Brings down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brings%20down. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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