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Noun
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Compared to the cutter, which hit the zone 57% of the time, his changeup had a stark 17% zone rate.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Sauer has six pitches in his arsenal, mainly relying on a cutter, four-seam fastball, slider and sinker while also mixing in a split finger and occasional curveball.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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The lunar module became their lifeboat to hurtle back to Earth.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Each restaurant is equipped with a kids’ menu, but there weren’t any chicken tenders and fries available.—
Essence,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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Firefighting efforts include 10 engines, five water tenders and five hand crews.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 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
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Blue-collar YouTuber In Southern California, 19-year-old HVAC technician Itzcoatl Aguilar is still on the launch pad.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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In the 1990s, both Kuwait and the UAE bought hundreds of Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and BM-30 Smerch multiple launch rocket systems to augment their respective land forces.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Then, during World War II, at the age of 8, Anderson learned to knit from her mother and grandmother, who belonged to a knitting auxiliary, creating sweaters, vests, bed socks and more.—
Talia McWright,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 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
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Water poured in too fast for the crew to pump it out, and the ship's captain ordered the eight-man crew onto the yawl boat.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Water poured in too fast for the crew to pump it out, and the ship's captain ordered the men into the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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When that high water abated in late July, Day predicted that barge traffic on the state's largest port and the Arkansas River as a whole would return to normal.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Sep. 2025
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There’s a small barge in a canal with a pole mounted on the front.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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