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Definition of takedown
1 : the action or an act of taking down
2 : something (such as a rifle) having takedown construction
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The prosecutions represent the biggest-ticket takedown of health-care fraud in U.S. history, Sessions said in a joint announcement with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
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These four individuals and 11 others were indicted as part of the federal government’s largest-ever health care fraud takedown.
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Federal authorities charged more than 400 people in what Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the largest health care fraud takedown operation in U.S. history.
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Seventy-seven people in South Florida are facing federal charges in what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday was the largest health-care fraud takedown in the nation’s history.
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Whittaker increased his striking output while Romero sat back in the third and fourth, with Whittaker also defending Romero's takedowns more adroitly.
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Probably expected, but Condé Nast is not pleased with former fashion editor Lucinda Chambers’s brutal takedown of the fashion industry.
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His fans applauded the takedown, with a flurry of humorous GIFs and reactions.
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But just hours before the social media takedown, Kardashian was the picture-perfect father in sweet photos of himself and the pair’s 7-month-old daughter, Dream Renée.
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First Known Use of takedown
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First Known Use of takedown
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