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Noun
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Vargas laid off a cutter in the dirt, running the count full.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025 -
The comeback sinker to the righty, the slider, the cutter.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
19 July 2025
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Epic story of perseverance and hope follows a 16-year-old boy who is shipwrecked in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and survives on a lifeboat with four companions: a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger.—
Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The posts said the man treaded water for about 20 minutes while waiting on a lifeboat.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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The cause is, however, still being investigated. 39 engines, three water tenders, one helicopter, four dozers and nine hand crews are working to suppress the fire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
30 July 2025
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Their friendship and camaraderie hit a rare tender note in a cacophony of suffering.—
Sarah El Sirgany,
CNN Money,
30 July 2025
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Luckily, the zombies in 28 Years Later have yet to invent longboats, so the island society has been able to endure, albeit on a semi-permanent war footing.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
3 July 2025
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Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Gilmour Space sounded an optimistic note after the launch as well.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 July 2025
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Ever since the launch of the first fragrance in 1982, Biagiotti has had a successful perfume business, including the Roma and the Forever lines, among others, and licensed to Angelini Group in 2014 after 20 years with Procter & Gamble.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
30 July 2025
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The Women of Dedication luncheon is the signature fundraiser of the women’s auxiliary, which was founded in the 1950s and supports The Salvation Army’s social service programs.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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Baraka was a central figure of the Black Arts Literary Movement — the cultural auxiliary to the 1960s Black Power movement, according to NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY Network.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
27 July 2024
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Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.—
Nicole Briese,
Peoplemag,
24 May 2024
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The barge was being pushed from behind by a tugboat.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
29 July 2025
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In time, the regulatory authority extended to the railroads’ competitors—barges and trucking, for example—giving them, too, the benefits of federal regulation.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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