as in to rub
to make smooth by friction
beautifully filed nails that obviously had been done by a manicurist
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as in to march
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group
to the strains of that familiar music, this year's graduating class filed into the auditorium
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
The Hayes suit, which was filed against the president, his reelection campaign and the activist group Turning Point Action, is continuing to wend its way through federal court in Atlanta.
—Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The allegations, with their confluence of money, exploitation, and vaunted institutions, are youth basketball’s version of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Last year, the Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit against the company over monopoly claims, calling to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
—Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
The Hayes suit, which was filed against the president, his reelection campaign and the activist group Turning Point Action, is continuing to wend its way through federal court in Atlanta.
—Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The allegations, with their confluence of money, exploitation, and vaunted institutions, are youth basketball’s version of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Debates have raged in the busy industry program, standby ticket queues have snaked outside venues for the hottest premieres and the stars — in their droves — have been out in force and on major charm offensives, with distributors using the fest to launch both awards and release campaigns.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The demand for Cena’s final match, scheduled for the December 13 Saturday Night’s Main Event, is already astronomical, with reports of over 45,000 people in the virtual ticket queue for an arena that holds roughly a third of that number.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Also on Sunday, Sturm scratched second line center Casey Mittelstadt, moving Pavel Zacha to center and re-inserting Khusnutdinov back into the lineup and onto the second line.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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But the problem right away was the Colts’ O-line just being too good.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Oct. 2025
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The structure itself is composed of two intersecting, circular forms, each 36 m (118 ft) wide, and elevated on slender steel columns.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2025
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New England improved to 5-2 on the year and are one up in the win column over the Buffalo Bills for the lead in the AFC East.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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This year a string of grant programs have been eliminated, hobbled or delayed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Oct. 2025
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Its overhead roofing is also great for hanging string lights, so the space can be enjoyed well into the evening.—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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He had been assigned the last car in a row of six, each manned by a colored youth standing inside his metal box in a red uniform, operating the lever that sent the car up from the basement grill to the roof-garden restaurant on the fifteenth floor and then back down again all day.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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For the past 35 years, a row of four vacant 19th-century townhouses on Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn has drawn curious looks from passerby.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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“File.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/file. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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