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Why the quest will fall short And finally Shohei Ohtani hits three homers and strikes out 10 in Game 4 of the 2025 NLCS.
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Perfect Tom strikes out once again, not on the look but on the flavors.
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Fertilizer Because of the frequent watering, which washes out nutrients, potted peppers need more fertilizer than garden plants.
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If the caffeine has already moved further along, doctors may use a laxative or a gastric lavage, which washes out the stomach through a tube.
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But too often that has become shorthand for a stodgy and unresponsive sector that fails to respond to customer demand.
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Standard sonar often fails in shallow waters, while cameras are blinded by shifting sands and the simple distortion of rolling ocean waves.
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Rather than catching Max in the act that sent him to prison, Sam is Max's public defender who intentionally tanks the case.
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But the lesson from AOL-Time Warner holds that promised big synergies can sour into integration problems that drive up expenses instead, so that the combination of paying a huge price, and getting negative savings, tanks the stock.
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Memorizing where relationships happen in every country misses the point.
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Yet that misses the gentle buzz of excitement when Secrets visited.
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Nothing majorly dramatic happens, no one flames out in the kitchen, no dish is an absolute failure.
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Wings that shot flames out of them.
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Corruption deepened, the economy entered one of the worst collapses in modern history, and a humanitarian crisis pushed close to a third of the population out of the country.
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By contrast, Roberts’s opinion in Slaughter collapses this distinction.
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During the January oral arguments, a majority sounded ready to rule that the law flunks the historical tradition test.
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“Goes under.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goes%20under. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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