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Recent Examples of kick over
This simply pops into the unit, then kicks over when the feeder has no socket power.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
The Ball State transfer made two kicks over 50 yards last year, going 11-of-13 overall on field goals.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Those charges were dropped, and the case was kicked over to the Commission on Judicial Conduct, which set forth its stinging summary of the case that now falls under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
What actually happens if every department kicked over $100,000 to El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, thereby doubling its $2-million budget?
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
The Ball State transfer made two kicks over 50 yards last year, going 11-of-13 overall on field goals.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Those charges were dropped, and the case was kicked over to the Commission on Judicial Conduct, which set forth its stinging summary of the case that now falls under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
What actually happens if every department kicked over $100,000 to El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, thereby doubling its $2-million budget?
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kick over
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Virtually half the team has turned over after going 9-4 in what now is last season.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The case will be turned over to the Prosecutor’s Office for review after the investigation.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The auction gives some breathing space to the market after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pitch to remove the sales tax on food for two years set off a period of unprecedented volatility.—
Mia Glass,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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In Terminator, an all-powerful, faultless AI becomes sentient, decides that humans are the enemy, and sets off a nuclear apocalypse.—
Bipul Sinha,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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As San Jose police and other law enforcement agencies converged on the site, authorities say Husien rushed a police sergeant who had just arrived and opened fire, touching off a close-range gunfight in which the sergeant was grazed in the head by a bullet.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Both threats touched off fury in Europe, where governments had spent most of the past year making concessions to Trump on both military spending and tariffs.—
Doyle McManus,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Neuroscience has long shown that watching another person experience pain activates the same neural regions as experiencing pain ourselves.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Nations that can reliably power the infrastructure underpinning advanced technologies will hold structural advantages in the 21st century.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Georgia Power is among several electric companies in the South building new natural gas plants to meet the unprecedented electricity demand for data centers, warehouses packed with servers that power artificial intelligence and our digital lives.—
Kristi Swartz,
AJC.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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By rolling MXene flakes into tubes, the team created hollow structures that allow ions to move more freely.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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Karlee Smith jumped on a quad bike to help herd sheep away from the fast-moving flames on a farm in the town of Gellibrand, a small rural town, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) southwest of Melbourne.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Kick over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kick%20over. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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