as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
managed to hunt down his ancestors, who arrived back to the 16th century
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Denver has already landed its first founding partner, CommonSpirit Health, which also secured naming rights for the club’s performance center.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025 -
This year the honor roll student founded The Curious Kid Collective, a community initiative that promotes literacy and creative exploration for children through storytelling and art, and was a recipient of the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
23 Sep. 2025
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But upon the couples’ return from their honeymoon, Jones learned her new husband had been diagnosed with cancer.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Founded in 2000 by Doug McCraw and Lutz Hofbauer as an arts nonprofit, FAT Village was a unique, innovative arts hub right next to the train tracks where artists showed their work, students learned figure drawing, and patrons sipped cappuccinos while surrounded by vintage books.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Unger and Struve discovered that under new state rules, treatment centers would no longer pay sober homes to house clients transitioning out of their programs, which had grown more common as a result of federal funding changes related to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2025
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Pathologists soon discovered that some remains were infested with bluebottle fly larvae.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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What To Know Detectives responded to the airport after workers located the body in the aircraft’s landing gear compartment during a routine maintenance check when the plane arrived after a transatlantic flight from Europe.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Grand Blanc is a small city located about 60 miles away from central Detroit.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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The Chargers ran down the clock after Herbert gained 2 yards on a sneak.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Bold buttons ran down the front placket of the look, with breast pockets featured as well.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Hunted (down or up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunted%20%28down%20or%20up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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