line up

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Recent Examples of line up And fittingly for the event's first time filming in Nashville, the performer line up is a who's who of country music heavy hitters, including Jelly Roll, the Brothers Osborne, Jon Pardi and Dan + Shay. Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Xena was kind of born out of that, and the universe lined up perfectly for it. Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025 During 1-on-1 drills, Morris lined up against London, looking to press the wideout as a faux defensive back. Hailey Hurst, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025 With a slate of flood relief bills lined up behind a controversial proposal to redraw congressional districts to shift five seats to Republican from Democrat, Burrows railed against the Democrats who left the state more than a week ago to shut down a vote on the plan. Karen Brooks Harper The Dallas Morning News, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for line up
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  • Helping her to organize the event will be Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng.
    News Desk, Artforum, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The situation has become so desperate that locals organized their own firefighting efforts when professional resources couldn't reach their area.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
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  • Jones, a left-handed hitter, has registered a .620 OPS against righties, 27% below league-average for that particular split.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Brentwood attorney James Cameron, III, who is the registering agent for Crockett Ventures, LLC, did not respond to a request for comment.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • The research division of The Economist Group scored 173 cities based on 30 key indicators that were grouped into five categories: stability, health care, education, infrastructure, and culture and environment.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Regaining Unconsciousness, her first collection in a dozen years, feels like an archival boxset, with over a hundred poems grouped into eleven sections with the impressionistic, welcoming vibe of playlists.
    Christopher Spaide August 1, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
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  • Our values no longer aligned, and ending a 20-year relationship was the right thing to do.
    Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • His quoting from Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Dwight Eisenhower, as well as the economist Joseph Schumpeter, was perfectly aligned with the realities of America’s past and present history.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025
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  • Stallone’s personal underdog tale famously parallels Balboa’s story as an unknown fighter who gets an unlikely shot at the heavyweight championship and greatly overachieves.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Rumi’s musical lyrics beautifully parallel her personal journey of self acceptance.
    Amy Sterling, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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  • Earlier in the week, the coastal counties of Dare and Hyde – located in North Carolina's Outer Banks region – ordered residents and tourists to evacuate the vulnerable Ocracoke and Hatteras islands, which see swelling populations during the summer months.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Amid the fallout between Trump and Musk this spring and summer, the president ordered a review of SpaceX's contracts.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • Even the rules are changing, with sets played to four games instead of six until Wednesday’s final, no-Ad scoring, and match tiebreakers instead of a third set.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Netflix still holds bragging rights for the all-time nomination record with 160 nods in 2020, and shares the record for most wins in a single year — 44 victories in 2021, matching CBS’ 1974 tally.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
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  • Ruth is arranged in a series of almost-irreverent vignettes, which date from Ruth’s early childhood in the 1960s through her middle age.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • After McLaren won the 2024 constructors’ championship, the Crown Prince of Bahrain arranged for the entire team to be flown from that race in Abu Dhabi to his nearby homeland to party through the night (McLaren Group is owned by Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund).
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025

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