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Recent Examples of jackknifeThe collision caused the tractor-trailer to jackknife and hit a guardrail.—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024 And the name of the game is squats: Pistol squats, goblet squats with weight, and jackknife crunches are all part of the usual regimen for Naomi.—Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023 Nissan says the SUVs have jackknife folding keys that may not stay fully open.—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023 Some model year 2016 through 2020 Nissan Rogue and 2017 through 2022 Rogue Sports, have jackknife-style keys – the type in which the metal blade of the key flips out from within a plastic key fob.—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for jackknife
He belly flopped onto the ice in ecstasy and relief before he was mobbed by his teammates, and then the game stopped to celebrate the greatest goal scorer who ever lived.
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Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
6 Apr. 2025
Since then, each Celtics road trip of four games or longer has given way to a similar belly flop at home.
Apple is not legally required to re-admit Fortnite, but the questions now are whether Apple is going to nitpick some specific thing to deny the app that caused all this, or whether Fortnite has somehow pushed the bounds of the results of the case to twist the knife even further.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
The man didn’t threaten anyone with the knife and soon left.
Brunson scored eight points in the game’s final 5:04, including a 3-pointer with 2:25 remaining that gave the Knicks a 116-104 lead and served as the dagger.
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Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
More symbolic may be the dagger tattoo on his left forearm.
Jennifer Lopez says divorce from Ben Affleck was 'probably the hardest time of my life'
The photos, which are not watermarked and show Lopez in an old Hollywood-style fur coat and white slip dress, remain up on her Instagram.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
The photos, which as of Tuesday remained on her Instagram and X with no visible watermark, show her in white fur coat and slip dress, clutching a Chanel purse.
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