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Recent Examples of kicker
Special teams Rookie kicker Andres Borregales finished 2-of-4 or 3-0f-4 on his field goal attempts, missing an extra point and possibly a 38-yard attempt that sailed directly above the right upright upon blowing with the wind.
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Their approaches differ in that Moody eliminated a jab step in is approach and now takes two steps, while Joseph was a two-step kicker in college who added the jab step as a pro.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
The two most likely candidates are redshirt junior kicker Colton Boomer and junior punter Oscar Doyle.
—Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2025
The Patriots elected not to re-sign kicker Joey Slye, then released long-time long snapper Joe Cardona this offseason.
—Doug Kyed, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Their approaches differ in that Moody eliminated a jab step in is approach and now takes two steps, while Joseph was a two-step kicker in college who added the jab step as a pro.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
The two most likely candidates are redshirt junior kicker Colton Boomer and junior punter Oscar Doyle.
—Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2025
The Patriots elected not to re-sign kicker Joey Slye, then released long-time long snapper Joe Cardona this offseason.
—Doug Kyed, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicker
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The Dolphins challenged for the league-worst the last couple of years, so the opening three Chicago kicks mattered.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Aug. 2025
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Marion earned preseason first-team honors as a kick returner by Sporting News, Phil Steele, Walter Camp and Athlon.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
10 Aug. 2025
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What follows is a whirlwind adventure full of surprises, where Hania discovers the true strength of friendship, the damage caused by deceit and, ultimately, finds peace with the loss of her mother.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Another update fail and emergency fix has just been confirmed for Windows 11, as August’s critical security install appears to pack a nasty surprise for some PC users.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The revelation got the attention of the folks who make Pop-Tarts, who begged Swift to release her recipe, even taking out a full-page ad in this very newspaper asking for it.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
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Part of that promotion includes a new trailer, and a new revelation that a dead Wednesday character is coming back to life.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
14 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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From storage baskets for cutting boards to stylish utensil crocks, Ina Garten shared her must-have kitchen items with Food Network to help her fans spruce up their kitchens with her daily essentials.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
24 Feb. 2025
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The House Ethics Committee is also scrutinizing Mills’ business dealings and financial disclosure statements, including whether Mills benefited from federal contracts while serving in Congress.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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That brings me to my more urgent level of mandatory disclosure.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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Her hair, her aesthetic, her caricature of the blonde bombshell all reminded me of Lana.—
Meg Pillow
July 31,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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One of the three heavy-hitter blonde bombshells of Hollywood’s golden age — the others, of course, being Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield — Van Doren is 94 years young and living a helluva life.—
Rance Collins,
IndieWire,
28 July 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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Goosed along by Cliff Martinez’s ghostly electronic score, Soderbergh taps into our collective inner hypochondriac, making every character’s sniffle or rubbed eye bristle with potential danger.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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To position Cohn in bed next to Trump, a notorious hypochondriac, highlights their strained relationship as Trump rose and Cohn fell in New York high society.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
8 Oct. 2024
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“Kicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicker. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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