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Recent Examples of elbowTaneja’s outsider status was apparent when he was elbowed out of an early Snap investment by Valley vets.—Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025 The Day of the Jackal and The Agency, by contrast, feel like studios elbowing back (via Peacock and Showtime/Paramount+).—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 May 2025 The centralized placement also helps to keep shoulders relaxed and elbows in.—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 From the final moments of O’Neil’s tenure, when defeat at home by Ipswich Town prompted a post-match meltdown that included Cunha elbowing a member of Ipswich’s staff then ripping his glasses from his face, the highly emotional forward never seemed far from implosion.—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for elbow
Video footage from the incident showed Padilla pushed to the ground and handcuffed outside the door while attempting to speak to Noem during the conference.
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Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
On Tuesday, staffers of the agency issued a statement to push for Corrêa's resignation.
Despite remaining hugely cash-generative at the operating level, outgoings on player transfers, loan interest and the £50million investment at the Carrington training ground have squeezed their ability to spend quite so readily as in the past.
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Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
Team-building is not about squeezing sufficient value out of every single contract or assembling a roster of yes men.
Their pitchers, especially their high-leverage relievers, have shouldered a likely unsustainable burden.
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Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Gendered Discrepancies In Household Responsibilities And Child Care During the pandemic, moms in heterosexual two-parent families more often shouldered the child care and helped with virtual schooling, even when both parents were working from home.
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