as in to fasten (on)
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Verb
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There’s no question about his ability to release the puck and mesh with other high-end talent.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
16 June 2025 -
Engaging in public-private dialogue is the most effective way to make sure an investment plan meshes with national digital agendas.—
Piyush Jain,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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As a longtime volunteer with Southwest Search Dogs, Swain trained her dogs, Spencer, a black Labrador retriever, and Rita, a yellow Labrador retriever, to follow scents up to five miles in efforts to find runaway or abducted children and adults in distress.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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Not being able to abduct grade-schoolers is an affront to his clan’s heritage.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Inspired by Kurosawa’s High and Low, the film follows a corporate titan whose life unravels when his child is mistakenly kidnapped, forcing moral and strategic reckonings.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
13 June 2025
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Randle previously reported to police on Tuesday that her daughter, 3-year-old Nola Dinkins, had been kidnapped at gunpoint, which led to the issuing of an Amber Alert in Newark, Delaware, police said.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
12 June 2025
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So much of the book is about family drama, but it’s enmeshed in criminal activity.—
Dwyer Murphy
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
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Some major media companies, including NPR, PBS and Walt Disney Co., have been enmeshed in legal maneuverings or threats to block crucial flowing of funding.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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Most horror flicks entrap their characters in one location or put them in some sort of unique, tense situation (think: satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong truck driver, attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final Destination, Death works with the great mundane canvas of ordinary life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Early motherhood entraps them—and their children—in a bleak socioeconomic cycle that’s almost impossible to break.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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