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The hero of the book’s first section is the sixteenth-century Spanish priest and writer Bartolomé de las Casas, who straddled the Old World and the New, issuing startling moral novelties to both.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2025 -
Purdy correctly straddled the line on the play between being safe and taking a shot.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
1 Dec. 2025
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The brace successfully monitored joint bending while the subject walked, ran, squatted, and jumped, even reconstructing the person’s running gait with precision.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Brockington squatted 664 pounds, breaking his own record from last year by 50 pounds, and posted a vertical jump of 42 inches.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Bestridden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestridden. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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