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Narrating what happened with the boy in the autopsy room turned out to be wholly different from experiencing it; the riptide shock of that moment slowed to a largo of painful excavation.
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Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
After helping save a pal who was pulled away by a riptide, Alejandro was swept away by the strong current.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
But, riptides are narrow bands of current, and usually surrounded on both sides by water pushing back towards land.
—Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2025
Dragged down into the riptide of the vast number of other dead men—dead bodies that meanwhile continued to drop to the pavement.
—Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024
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Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
After helping save a pal who was pulled away by a riptide, Alejandro was swept away by the strong current.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
But, riptides are narrow bands of current, and usually surrounded on both sides by water pushing back towards land.
—Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2025
Dragged down into the riptide of the vast number of other dead men—dead bodies that meanwhile continued to drop to the pavement.
—Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Riptide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riptide. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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