hot pursuit

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Recent Examples of hot pursuit Creating personalized charm necklaces — a service now offered by more and more jewelry brands in brick-and-mortar as well as online capacities — is clearly a hot pursuit. Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 8 Jan. 2025 City Police Car and Muscle Car Chase With this exciting Lego set, builders ages 6 and up can embark on a hot pursuit and catch the criminal. Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024 In an interview for the SABR Bio Project, Henley recounted the details of the fateful play: (George) Shuba shot a ball to deep right-center field, and Henley turned in hot pursuit. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 One unusual pet has been returned to its owner after a hot pursuit caught on police camera last month. Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hot pursuit
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Noun
  • There are charts tracking literacy, migration, and taxation.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Gaps in available flight tracking data have raised another question: whether the aircraft used the back half of the runway, which would normally be necessary to generate enough power for takeoff.
    Mika Gröndahl, New York Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Scribble tracing can be a great activity for toddlers to explore nature and their creative side.
    Dr. Pooja Sarin Tandon, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
  • The costs go to various responses, including on-the-ground response teams, vaccine doses and vaccination clinics, case reporting, contact tracing, mitigation plans, infection prevention, data systems, and other technical assistance to state health departments.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the pursuit of creating no trash, the serial entrepreneur ditched take-out coffee, plastic utensils, food packaging, bottled body wash, and even throw-away diapers.
    Sara Braun, Fortune, 21 June 2025
  • Two hours later, the pursuit ended with Boelter crawling to police.
    Nathan Layne, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • These tailings are often stored and managed in order to be reliably and responsibly disposed of.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • The tailings are already mined and sitting on the surface.
    Scott McWhorter, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The channel's following grew to more than 2.4 million subscribers.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • Zamora, 40, built an online following as a fitness influencer and model.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Mad Max: Fury Road – July 9th One of the greatest action movies ever filmed, Mad Max: Fury Road is an absolute visual feast, a high-octane, pulse-pounding chase through an apocalyptic desert that words simply cannot describe.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • His character, Deputy Cletus Hogg, was a comedic and endearing fixture of The Dukes of Hazzard, remembered for his hapless attempts to catch Bo and Luke Duke and for the show's signature car chases and stunts.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025

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