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Recent Examples of clungNurseries and a golf course clung to other parts of the city.—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025 In 10 other cases, according to the review, people resisted arrest, some fleeing on foot, while in one instance, an agent briefly clung to the side of a moving car.—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025 Fans clung to Pujols, if from afar.—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025 Maduro is a terrible dictator who has destroyed the Venezuelan economy and corruptly clung to power.—Elizabeth Shackelford, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025 By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—Rob Haskell, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025 Many Malagasy people welcome the removal of Rajoelina, who clung to power amid the protests, having himself first been brought to power via a coup in 2009, to then be voted in as president in 2018.—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025 Yet amid the unbearable pain, the couple clung to each other — and to their faith.—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025 This time was his time and with Gordon off the pitch, Woltemade grasped it and clung to it.—George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values.
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Michael Cuby,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
There was one particular pass that stuck in the mind.
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