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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eight balls
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Although it’s credited to the core duo of Shabason and Krgovich, Four Days in June leans on a community of treasured collaborators; some are longtime members of the duo’s Toronto cohort and others outsiders dropping by.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
18 June 2026 -
Both are global 'soccer' outsiders, having prioritized other sports and rebuilt domestic leagues.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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But when the Golden Knights make big cuts again this summer to fit under the salary cap and find a new batch of misfits, this will be a core strategy that helps this team extend its window.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
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Once the lovable expansion misfits, the Vegas Golden Knights have now become the black hat-wearing Oakland Raiders of the National Hockey League.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2026
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Carl Anka Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England career is a fascinating case study in why team sports can prefer the orthodox to the mavericks.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.—
Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Apr. 2026
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The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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As Democratic heretics go, Representative Dan Goldman isn’t guilty of many crimes against his party.—
Russell Berman,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2026
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Those who don’t cling to the faith are heretics.—
Kerry Jackson,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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