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Recent Examples of grabbleIn places were grabbling sticks and the like aren’t allowed, noodlers get the extra reach by way of their feet.—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
However, Cena outsmarted him by grabbing the chair, throwing it next to Dom, and pretending to be down on the mat.
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Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
Security camera footage from a nearby apartment complex showed the naked man walking across the street prior to the incident, seemingly talking to himself and grabbing a sign, per NBC 4.
Because the Vikings found themselves in suboptimal downs and distances, and because the Ravens snatched the lead early in the third quarter, the Vikings found themselves in the wrong game script, again having to come from behind.
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Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
The project, directed by German indie king Uwe Boll (Rampage, Postal) was snatched up ahead of the American Film Market by new distributor Free Wind for German-speaking Europe.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
On Iowa State’s next possession, TCU senior safety Bud Clark came up with a massive interception right before the two-minute timeout, giving TCU a great opportunity to seize control of the game with the Horned Frogs getting the ball at halftime.
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Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Nov. 2025
Pokrovsk would be the largest city Russia has seized since Bakhmut in May 2023.
The only person ever executed in Israel was Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of the Holocaust, who was hanged in 1962 after he famously was captured by Israeli intelligence agents in Argentina and subsequently convicted in a landmark trial.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
With the pinfall win, Cena captured the WWE Intercontinental Championship, which is the only championship that had eluded him in his WWE career.
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