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Recent Examples of elbow
Sale has thrived with the Braves after making nine trips to the disabled and injured lists with the Red Sox, mostly with shoulder and elbow ailments.
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ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
Cousins suffered shoulder and elbow injuries during a Week 10 loss to the Saints.
—Josh Kendall, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Travelers and locals, tradesmen and merchants, the working class and the wealthy would all spend time, elbow to elbow at tables crowded close together.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Daniel Diermeier, the school’s chancellor, is widely perceived within higher ed as trying to elbow into the Harvard-Yale-Stanford stratum.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
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ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
Cousins suffered shoulder and elbow injuries during a Week 10 loss to the Saints.
—Josh Kendall, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Travelers and locals, tradesmen and merchants, the working class and the wealthy would all spend time, elbow to elbow at tables crowded close together.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
Daniel Diermeier, the school’s chancellor, is widely perceived within higher ed as trying to elbow into the Harvard-Yale-Stanford stratum.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elbow
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Political observers saw the explicit branding as a sign of Netanyahu’s plan to capitalize on the wartime momentum at the ballot box and push for early elections to maximize the electoral dividends.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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Charging the future faster than ever BYD is introducing the 2nd Generation Blade Battery and FLASH Charging Technology, pushing the boundaries of safety, efficiency and performance.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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This technical pivot would allow nations to squeeze every profitable drop from their own land with surgical precision, bypassing the geopolitical chaos of distant chokepoints and securing a future defined by Decentralized Techno-Resource Sovereignty.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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When residents are this squeezed, City Hall’s predictable response has been to charge us more.—
Bradley Schnell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Before Chicago’s taxpayers are asked to shoulder another property tax increase, CPS must demonstrate effective use of current funding.—
Juan Rangel,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Ahuja acknowledged the emotional toll of losing colleagues and the reality that remaining employees will shoulder more work in the near term.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Elbow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elbow. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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