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Recent Examples of line up
The Huskies, plagued by opt-outs, had trouble identifying a quarterback to line up against Army at the Fenway Bowl before finally settling on thrusting true freshman Ksaan Farrar into the fire.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
The network announced that the segment would be part of the line up on Sunday evening’s broadcast.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Jan. 2026
Bills Mafia is one of the best traveling fan bases in the league, but Buffalo fans are few and far between at Empower Field as the two teams line up for the national anthem.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026
That might make Brett Baty, Mark Vientos and 23-year-old Luisangel Acuña expendable, and New York could line up well with Boston given their need for pitching and outfield help.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
The network announced that the segment would be part of the line up on Sunday evening’s broadcast.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Jan. 2026
Bills Mafia is one of the best traveling fan bases in the league, but Buffalo fans are few and far between at Empower Field as the two teams line up for the national anthem.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026
That might make Brett Baty, Mark Vientos and 23-year-old Luisangel Acuña expendable, and New York could line up well with Boston given their need for pitching and outfield help.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for line up
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Mountbatten-Windsor's name appears at least several hundred times in the documents, sometimes in news clippings, sometimes in Epstein's private email correspondence and in guest lists for dinners organized by Epstein.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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Early cash is seen as important for advertising and organizing ahead of the general election.—
Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hospitals have used what are sometimes called blackout procedures, which can include registering a patient under a pseudonym, removing their name from the hospital directory, or prohibiting staff from even confirming that a patient is in the hospital.—
Claudia Boyd-Barrett,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Difficult race conditions Vonn was the sixth racer in Friday’s downhill and had registered the fastest time at the first checkpoint before landing a jump off balance.—
Graham Dunbar,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Multiple chips are then grouped together to create FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform (aka.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Assembling the Ni-Ti tubes into a working elastocaloric regenerator—a type of heat exchanger—involved grouping them into trios, and tightly fitting them into a strong plastic casing.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Twenty-nine states have laws or regulations prohibiting trans student-athletes in K-12 schools or colleges from competing on teams that align with their gender identities.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC news,
31 Jan. 2026
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Nowhere is that more evident than in Florida, which is quickly emerging as a national model for how states can align public safety, immigration enforcement, consumer protection and economic policy with a broader vision of national strength.—
George Landrith,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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The popularity of the practice has paralleled a broader drying out.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2026
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Their bold bid to subpoena Wiles also parallels their effort to seek similar testimony from Rubio, who as Florida’s senator privately met with Rivera, Nuhfer and Gorrin at a hotel in Washington in 2017.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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Bell has already ordered another season, as fans in China, Russia and around the world binge Season 1.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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The outages have left ordinary Russians frequently unable to use their phones on the go — to make calls, order a taxi or pay for groceries.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
31 Jan. 2026
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According to the researchers, even a few kilometers of difference allows interior models of Jupiter to better match both gravity data and atmospheric observations.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Heading into 2026 the Red Sox look capable of at least matching last year’s club, which finished third in the AL East, made the playoffs and lost to the New York Yankees in the AL Wild Card Series.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Prosecutors claim Sainz Salazar served as a key fentanyl producer for the Chapitos from about 2022 through 2025, helping manufacture millions of pills, arranging drug transactions under armed protection and operating labs that later became central to the group’s fentanyl production.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Mustique also has a small hotel, Cotton House, where 17 guest rooms and suites are arranged between a two-story building and a series of garden cottages.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Line up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20up. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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