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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nailed (down)
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If successful, Proposition 50 would ditch a nonpartisan commission California voters established via a 2010 ballot initiative that draws those district boundaries.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025 -
After joining Harvard’s faculty, Morgan established the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute in 2007, recognizing the genre’s deep intellectual and cultural value at a time when few in academia did.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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But the original plan for an open-air rooftop bar proved too open-air in Texas weather.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Good teams get the job done with no empathy and little fuss, but a run of five victories in six fixtures in all competitions proved misleading.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Investigators determined that the man was struck by a driver who left the scene, police said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Nov. 2025
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In a recent paper published in the journal Applied Thermal Engineering, Graffiedi demonstrated that high electric fields can boost CHF and enable gravity-independent boiling — vital for electric vehicles and high-performance computing.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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The Dodgers, likewise, demonstrated a level of depth and cohesion that went beyond numbers.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Granted, the sample size was very small, but Suzuki showed the team enough to trust in him moving forward.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Drone footage showed catastrophic flooding that turned streets into rivers, submerged homes and overturned cars as Typhoon Kalmaegi, known locally as Tino, dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in only 24 hours in some areas.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Only about a dozen states currently cover these obesity drugs for low-income Americans insured through Medicaid.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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But this worsening food crisis now on a collision course with the issue Democrats are holding firm to fix in this shutdown, looming, skyrocketing health care costs for some 20 million Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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The government has still never overtly specified which companies would be involved in the project.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Nov. 2025
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The circumstances of the shooting and type of firearm also were not specified in the post.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Nailed (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nailed%20%28down%29. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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