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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicked (about)
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After Renee Good was shot and killed by a Customs and Border Protection agent in Minneapolis, Peak said more than 1,200 protested in the northwest Valley with just two days' notice.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026 -
That followed another one last week, when hundreds protested the deployment of ICE agents.—
Fernanda Figueroa,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a 22,250-birth increase in 2024 marked the start of an upward trend.—
Mike Stobbe,
Fortune,
7 Feb. 2026
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And certainly nobody has doubted the validity of the critics’ score.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Kicked (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicked%20%28about%29. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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