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Recent Examples of knee
Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
Notre Dame announced Saturday that Kevin Bauman sustained a season-ending left knee injury that will require surgery.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
The Panthers had other potential options at left guard, even with typical backup guard Chandler Zavala sidelined with a knee injury.
—Mike Kaye
august 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Aug. 2025
After missing more than a season due to a knee injury, Mauricio’s development is still nowhere near complete.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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The New York Liberty haven’t been as successful since UConn great Breanna Stewart went down on July 26 against the Los Angeles Sparks with a right knee injury.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
Notre Dame announced Saturday that Kevin Bauman sustained a season-ending left knee injury that will require surgery.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
The Panthers had other potential options at left guard, even with typical backup guard Chandler Zavala sidelined with a knee injury.
—Mike Kaye
august 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Aug. 2025
After missing more than a season due to a knee injury, Mauricio’s development is still nowhere near complete.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knee
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In Sabrina, Hepburn's character ends up with Bogart's character, the older brother who is pictured on the left, rather than Holden's, the younger brother who is kissing her.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Former Yankee Kyle Higashioka tried to catch Domínguez at third, but the catcher made an errant throw that trickled into left.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Picquart reopens the investigation and pushes for a retrial, butting heads with his superiors and with a disloyal, antisemitic subordinate (Grégory Gadebois)—ultimately derailing his military career in the pursuit of justice.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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Tie the anchor departures to the fact that some of them were butting heads with their traditional backers or got laid off, and the new recipe comes with a dash of controversy that makes for a natural ingredient in the never-ending race to capture attention.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Title The title is the legal right to own and use a property.—
James Nelson,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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And so while other Israelis mourned, the hard right went to work, methodically building a political movement to retake the Gaza Strip, annex it, and repopulate it with Jewish settlements.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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The mission was bumped to Monday, Aug. 11, before it was delayed once again to Tuesday, Aug. 12.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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In April, it was bumped to make space for a portrait capturing the assassination attempt on Trump in Bulter, Pennsylvania, with his face dripping with blood and an American flag in the background.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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The Baltimore Streetcar Museum operates on its former Falls Road headquarters and announced plans to refurbish the line’s roundhouse.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2025
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This was like absorbing a roundhouse punch from Mike Tyson during Tyson’s prime.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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For a start, the first round didn’t kick-off until February, unlike late August this time around.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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The manager shouted at Emiliano Martinez to kick long and hoped to take PSG back to Villa Park with only a one-goal deficit.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Poor and low-income Americans are, in fact, the largest swing vote in the country.—
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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He was awarded first base in the second inning when his swing hit Diamondback catcher James McCann’s glove.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Trump has also jabbed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, including on Monday after Zelensky pushed back on talks around a territory swap, sparking worries from European officials who fear Trump could cut a bad deal for Kyiv.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
13 Aug. 2025
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And like Booker’s lament that his party has (supposedly) rolled over for Trump, Cruz back then jabbed at Republicans for insufficiently standing up to President Barack Obama.—
David M. Drucker,
Mercury News,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Knee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knee. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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