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Recent Examples of kicker
JSerra kicker Noah Thayer made a career-long 53-yard field goal to give the Lions a 17-12 lead late in the second quarter, but Arriaza ran for a touchdown to give Damien a 20-17 lead at halftime.
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Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
But the kicker, obviously, is that the team that did trade for Parsons is the team that literally invented the strategy the Titans favor.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
The Jackets turned their last three possessions into 13 points, with kicker Aidan Birr’s 32-yard field goal putting the visitors up 13-10 as the dying seconds of the second quarter expired.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Texans kicker Brad Larson nailed a 37-yard field goal on the second possession of double overtime to give his school the huge victory.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
But the kicker, obviously, is that the team that did trade for Parsons is the team that literally invented the strategy the Titans favor.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
The Jackets turned their last three possessions into 13 points, with kicker Aidan Birr’s 32-yard field goal putting the visitors up 13-10 as the dying seconds of the second quarter expired.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Texans kicker Brad Larson nailed a 37-yard field goal on the second possession of double overtime to give his school the huge victory.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicker
Noun
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The Westfalenstadion’s Südtribüne began the year in good form, too, with this tifo before kick-off.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Cannonier's game plan was a good one, but his approach of using leg kicks to slow his opponent and pick up control time against the cage didn't work.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The president made a surprise on-field cameo at Chelsea FC’s win at the World Cup Final in New Jersey in July.—
Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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To my surprise, the burger was quite good; a gooey mesh of meat and cheese became one flesh.—
Joe Joyce,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The revelation raised the possibility that an unknown entity had obtained the cryptographic equivalent of a skeleton key that could be used to surreptitiously decrypt millions of users’ DNS queries that were encrypted through DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Washington agreed, but also dropped a revelation that left the audience stunned.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Maybe that’s why, compared with some other kinds of nitpickers, pop critics can seem especially extraneous.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Republicans, meanwhile, determined that all of the tut-tutting about Hispanic voters and hostile enforcement tactics had been a crock.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
19 Aug. 2025
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While there’s no kitchen, the bar offers daily specials that might include oysters, beef bourguignon (served out of a crock pot), red beans and rice and lobster rolls, among others.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
31 July 2025
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, wants House GOP members to support what the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is doing to force disclosures on the Epstein case.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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She was ultimately charged with one class B misdemeanor for electronic communications harassment, and two more class B misdemeanors for electronic disclosure of personal identifying information.—
Ryan Coleman September 2,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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With that bombshell on Instagram, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce sent fans over the moon with news that the couple were engaged.—
Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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Ortega, 25, had been coupled up with Nic Vansteenberghe, 24, for much of the season after arriving as a bombshell on the second night.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Optimists showed greater differences in neural patterns when thinking of positive events versus negative events, compared to pessimists.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 July 2025
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The researchers also found that optimistic people showed bigger differences between brain patterns for emotionally positive and negative events than pessimists did.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
21 July 2025
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“Kicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicker. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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