The Sounders’ defenders swarmed Messi from the first minute, and midfielder Obed Vargas was particularly physical, annoying the Argentine icon time and again.
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Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
In fairness, Arsenal seemed to be annoying Liverpool for much of the first hour.
What is required is a pullback - on huge deficits, on aggravating international and internal relationships, and on the undermining of historical foundations of the United States.
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John S. Tobey,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Cao faces one count of murder with eight allegations of aggravating factors, including his use of a knife, prosecutors said.
His summer holiday after scoring three times in the group stage for Portugal in the European Under-21 Championship — punctuated by a rasping right-footed shot into the top corner against Poland that circulated widely among Chelsea fans online — consisted of a week spent with friends in the Algarve.
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Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
10 Aug. 2025
Thrips have rasping, sucking mouthparts.
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Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
5 Aug. 2025
Some might use it as a toy, gnawing and tearing it up, while others, like Potato, like to sleep with the clothing item.
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Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
No other piece of music this year so eloquently captured fin de siècle wariness, the gnawing sense that a new, scary, and potentially enlightening world may be only two years away.
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