line up

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Recent Examples of line up Ultimately, Murphy said the extra vessels that were added to the vessel line up to accommodate the longer-transits around Africa should drive ocean freight rates down because too many ships will be available compared to demand. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025 For smoothly spinning asteroids, those pushes line up in the same direction and gradually change their spin rate. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025 The new video shows the moments directly after the crash as more than a dozen drivers and other good Samaritans rush to the wreckage of the helicopter, line up side by side and then lift the aircraft up. ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025 Before the Jets could fully line up, Prescott that the Jets had strong safety Tony Adams go outside to cover Williams and cornerback Sauce Gardner inside to cover Pickens. Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for line up
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  • While the schoolyard is in progress, the school’s environmental specialist and garden coordinator are getting students outside, growing plants and on field trips, while organizing curriculum with an environmental focus.
    Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • One was a 19-year-old university student from Kharkiv named Anna Kovalenko, who recently organized a series of musical and artistic gatherings called Imagination Space that drew hundreds of participants.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • Businesses owned by Native Americans or people who identify as Middle Eastern or North African did not receive any city dollars during the study period, or at least not enough to register as a percentage of the total, Bawa said.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Hundreds of pups registered to be part of the parade, including PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest 2025 winner, Bastian, who wheeled through the route with his colorful and fluffy Lorax costume.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • Most of all, though, the receivers are often simply around each other, which is not always common for a position grouping in the NFL.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • By grouping her students according to their sign and ruling element, Prouse found a clever way to create a classroom that felt both welcoming and balanced, setting the tone for connection and community.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • By aligning with both the NBA and Cotton Incorporated, Revolve is working to strengthen its connection with consumers through experiential and purpose-driven initiatives that bridge culture, fashion and community engagement.
    Andre Claudio, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • When structured well, private debt aligns incentives, not undermines them.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Malkovich's role, meanwhile, parallels the Hunger Games timeline depicted in the original book and film quartet, in which Snow was played by the late Donald Sutherland.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Boggs’s work on Baldwin, which began in the late 1990s with a campaign to revive the long out-of-print children’s novel, Little Man, Little Man, paralleled the return of Baldwin’s writing to prominence and his rise to the status of cultural icon.
    Megan Marshall September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • Mayor Chris Carney said the town received two drones for the price of one because Mooresville was among the first communities in the country to order the new technology.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In September, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy cited the pursuit of innovation, collaboration and connection in ending the company’s three-days-in the-office hybrid model and ordering employees — including those at the company’s Bay Area offices — back in five days a week.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • From sleek and silky cooling quilts to vintage-style sets complete with matching shams, these cooling bedding finds are ideal for every season and every budget.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Patriots announced after the game that Maye matched a feat by Tom Brady.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • However, for years, police suspected that Charles arranged the murder of Markel.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025

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