In basic multiplayer fashion, there are bottlenecked spaces for ambushes, and everything loops together just fine for flanking.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
Aside from games like volleyball and dominoes, Gach says some children stage fake ambushes on one another while pretending to be government forces or rebel fighters.
Another possible explanation for the name is that this was also the season when people set beaver traps during the fur trade.
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Chantelle Lee,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
In addition to raking the traps, the greenskeeper at the country club also hired McConaughey to hunt the armadillos that were wreaking havoc on the greens of the golf course.
Several late-breaking surprises have shaken up what political watchers thought would be a quiet race in Virginia.
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Jahd Khalil,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
Laden with symbolism both in its lyrics and accompanying video, the piece — structured in operatic movements —surprises with Rosalía’s lyrical performance, gliding seamlessly between English, German, and her native Spanish.
Ising’s case is among a series of incidents The Star has reported on in recent months in which fire department employees charged with serious crimes — including assaults, a felony drug case and multiple DWIs — were allowed to remain on the job, some for years.
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Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
Vril and Agartha have thrived in part because of the way the editors mix brainrot and bigotry, disguising their ideological assaults in the fried fog of GifTok rap gibberish.
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