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Director David Anspaugh, whose resume includes small-town basketball tale Hoosiers and against-all-odds college football biopic Rudy, sticks rigidly to his sporting underdog formula, only skimming the surface of the David-versus-Goliath encounter.
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The Hurricanes play a rigidly structured brand of hockey that makes the game easier to read and anticipate for the goaltender.
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Rescuers then wait intently for any indication of life, using sensitive microphones or telescopic cameras or simply pressing an ear against the rubble, hoping to detect a voice, a knock or the faintest movement.
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The act of focusing intently on an object—a holy name, a mantra, the Eucharist—has the potential to transform a person’s desires.
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On this resolutely French island, the interior showcases Italian classic modernism, with furniture by Molteni and a sculptural Minotti kitchen.
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But on a recent Wednesday at Stanford Medicine’s cancer center in Palo Alto, the boy climbed resolutely into the chair of a first-of-its-kind treatment device, focused for the task ahead.
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The county has steadfastly avoided taking a position on the district attorney’s freeze request, determined not to blow up a settlement that officials want over and done with.
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In internal messaging to staff, Bunch has steadfastly asserted the Institution’s independence, while not mentioning Trump by name.
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The few street names in Happy Haven were determinedly upbeat, with Christian undertones.
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Wall Street has been determinedly upbeat about the war in Iran resolving in a relatively short window.
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The entire plug was on the outside of the pike’s mouth—he couldn’t be hooked too solidly.
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Larkin, 33, pointed to the no-endorsement decision as evidence of momentum for progressive candidates like him, even in solidly red Florida.
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The lower mowing ranges are commonly used for recreational turf areas that are more intensively managed.
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One big concern is that screens are intensively stimulating for young people because they are held up close and engage young viewers with things such as fast cuts and colors.
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Core Millennials — born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, squarely in the middle of their generation — graduated into the teeth of the 2008 financial crisis.
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This sits squarely within the company’s broader premiumization strategy.
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“Fixedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixedly. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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