Eventually, Butch breaks free and knocks out the Gimp, effectively hanging him since he’d been strung up.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington Beach middle school soccer field, practicing various ways the ham radio operators will help in an earthquake, fire or other disaster that knocks out communications.
But as much as the ratings monopoly has taken its share of knocks over the decades, it has never been supplanted as the anchor of the $70 billion-plus TV ad business.
Vanderbilt missed its first three shots despite having good looks before Nickel knocks down a 3-pointer on an offensive rebound.
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American Statesman staff,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Feb. 2026
Tamra Judge steps up to the line and, like Judge Dredd with hair extensions, knocks down two dozen or so targets in 27 seconds, seemingly without missing a shot.
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