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The Bulls can’t afford to mess the next nine weeks up — because Buzelis is the future in Chicago.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
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Whether antiques, cherished knickknacks, or heirlooms, items that are very delicate and/or precious to the customer are typically items house cleaners won’t want to mess with in order to cut down the risk of damaging them.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
11 Feb. 2026
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But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked? Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2024
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The plan jumbles together uses that zoning had put asunder, so that homes, offices, factories, stores, entertainment venues, public space, and markets all share the same city block.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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Returning from exile, the Roman statesman found his property vandalized; his scrolls jumbled, torn, and scattered.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Oct. 2022
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Ken Holland, general manager, B Holland arrived on the scene of a muddling franchise that had lost four straight first-round series to the same opponent.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The new estimate was based on accounting for some of those muddling data points.—
Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
29 Jan. 2026
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Extreme deficits may lead to obsessive food tracking, anxiety around eating, or disordered eating patterns.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
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These measurements revealed that the second conductivity drop occurred when the atomic structure of the warm dense aluminum suddenly lost its orderly arrangement and became disordered.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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Sun scorch, on the other hand, typically causes plant leaves to wilt, discolor, or turn crispy.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Feb. 2026
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Avoid if the snow is discolored, including yellow or black snow compared to pristine, untouched white snow.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Colly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colly. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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