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Recent Examples of line up
Those goals do not always line up.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Cosplayers gather, stopping to greet one another, compare builds and line up for photos with each other.
—Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
Now, scientists wait for the ideal weather, technical criteria and orbital positions to all line up.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
The agency envisaged the book as a public invitation for other Iranian nuclear scientists to defect as well, and Chalker worked government contacts at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to line up a publisher at its HarperCollins division.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Cosplayers gather, stopping to greet one another, compare builds and line up for photos with each other.
—Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
Now, scientists wait for the ideal weather, technical criteria and orbital positions to all line up.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
The agency envisaged the book as a public invitation for other Iranian nuclear scientists to defect as well, and Chalker worked government contacts at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to line up a publisher at its HarperCollins division.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for line up
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Hope United — a joint effort of the Los Angeles Mission and Hope the Mission — is helping organize the event, which will feature music, giveaways and multiple volunteer shifts.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Keep your busy life organized with Cozyla, a smart touchscreen hub designed for the whole family to bring together schedules, routines, chores and meal plans into one easy-to-use display.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Our real estate data comes from public records that have been registered and digitized by local county offices.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Abby Baglioni registered four hits as Hull defeated Randolph 15-4 in South Shore League play.—
Tyler McManus,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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The city agencies were grouped by the Mayor's six key areas of investment in his nearly $5 billion preliminary budget.—
Dennis Valera,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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At the first Ramona Braver Angels workshop, the 40 participants were grouped into pairs and directed to ask their partners questions that were unrelated to politics.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Some activities aligned with a slower approach could include baking, gardening, sitting with your kids and talking or coloring rather than looking at a screen, and putting comfort first.—
Sari Hitchins,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2026
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The move aligns the Netherlands with what is allowed in the United States, where Tesla owners can already use the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) function in the cars.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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In the nineteen-seventies, Franciscan University, a small school on a hill above the downtown, became a center for charismatic Catholicism, an expressive, theologically orthodox movement that paralleled the development of the evangelical Jesus People and secular hippie culture.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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The seed for this plotline parallels Ashley’s own concerns about childbearing in light of her cyst.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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My sister, Louise, had spent hours perfecting the screechy, imperious cry of Starscream, only to use it when phoning the takeaway and ordering curry sauce and chips.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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In the kitchen, as well as using vegetables grown in the garden or nearby, the hotel has adopted Meat Free Monday to encourage guests to order vegetarian meals at least once a week.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
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Thankfully, matching lounge sets are the perfect solution to this universal dilemma, and right now, Amazon just marked down fresh styles for spring—with savings up to 37 percent off.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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The pair of Brooklyn North narcotics detectives involved in the clash thought the man matched the description of someone who had just made a drug sale, a police source said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
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But these three high school students aren't arranging bouquets in a floral shop.—
Bo Evans,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Some of these are arranged into more staid compositions of geometric bands of color, while others bend and bulge into shapes evoking the baroque ruination of junk-yard findings.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Line up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20up. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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