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Recent Examples of blat
Noun
Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected.—Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
One of the Harley-Davidson Homecoming festival’s centerpiece attractions — concerts in Veterans Park in downtown Milwaukee — ended not with a roar but with a whimper July 11, and abruptly, when the concerts were canceled around 6 p.m. due to approaching storms.
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Piet Levy,
jsonline.com,
12 July 2025
So the approving roar was, in part, driven by relief and hope for a team Amaya Papaya win.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
The 53-year-old ageless wonder was bouncing around the football field barking encouragement, shouting out orders and running circles around participants — many nearly 40 years his younger — at the Orlando Quarterback Shootout and Battle in the Pit.
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Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 July 2025
However, Ultraman is simple-minded and purely exists to follow Luthor's directions, down to the exact attack moves his handler shouts into his earpiece during fights.
Challenge a good ol’ boy on a tractor to diagram a sentence and the reaction would likely amount to a short grunt.
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Tom Roland,
Billboard,
10 July 2025
Refinements since then pushed the output to 300 hp and 365 lb-ft, offering a mild edge over the outgoing engine, but a new six-speed automatic replacing the old four-speed one meant the SUV could make better use of the grunt on hand.
The jarring bleat came across cellphones in Tennessee Monday morning grabbing peoples attention.
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Liz Kellar,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
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