Each manager who reports up to Corrine mentors a small group of future team leads, creating a cascading structure in which every leader has clearly identified successors.
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Mike Keogh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
The system and its successors were seen as useful crime fighting tools.
Agnifilo, Kaplan and Geragos are joining Weinstein’s team as pinch hitters ahead of his next appearance in Manhattan Supreme Court on March 4, with a trial date still to be set for the outstanding third-degree rape charge concerning an alleged assault on aspiring actor Jessica Mann in 2013.
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Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
The Jays used four pinch hitters and defensive substitutions.
In 2012, the NFL was caught off guard, forced to pluck unqualified replacements, some of whom were fanboys of specific teams and another of whom was a competitor in the World Series of Poker.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
Gash and Brin, who are Highland Park residents, disclosed their decisions not to seek reelection to lead their parties on Wednesday, giving the respective precinct committeepersons time to evaluate potential replacements before their April conventions.
Not one receiver on the Miami Dolphins depth chart has established anything worth bragging about throughout their professional careers, and Miami’s two frontline wideouts — Tutu Atwell and Jalen Tolbert — are both career backups.
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Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
That led Smith to throw to a collection of rookies, journeymen and backups.
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