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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nailed (down)
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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, established in 1987, lists worldwide suicide bereavement support groups as a public service to loss survivors.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026 -
But the center re-established his dominance against the smaller Warriors on Monday, finishing with 15 points and 17 rebounds while serving as a significant deterrent on the defensive interior.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
27 Jan. 2026
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Below are the 14 products that proved themselves again and again—all from Amazon.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre not only spawned a franchise (with nine feature films, to date) but proved massively influential on horror in the decades to come.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026
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After a tall glass of wine, DiGuglielmo called the skater back, determined to talk her out of the comeback.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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Both bets remain active, meaning they have not yet been resolved because an outcome has not been determined.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, as a 2006 study from PNAS demonstrated, signature whistles serve the sole purpose of encoding identity information that other dolphins can recognize, even when stripped of individual voice characteristics.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Islamic Republic has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to project and absorb pain.—
Davood Moradian,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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For Proust—who may have met Wilde and even been the subject of the older man’s amorous attention (though accounts of their meeting or meetings could be apocryphal)—his downfall showed that life featured far keener sorrows than those encountered in books.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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An app on her phone showed the brothers’ locations in the same place — down to the cross street — as the reported shooting.—
Sophia Peyser,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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Even those who are insured face drastically higher out-of-pocket costs.—
Renuka Rayasam,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2026
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Digital assets are not legal tender, are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), and are not subject to protections afforded to bank deposits.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement In the overall scoring model, the innovation & economic impact dimension contributes 30% of the final score, aggregating indicators related to patents, open‑education offerings, and graduate outcomes according to the KPI weights specified in the scoring model.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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Authorities said in court filings that the incident began after an argument between the woman and her teenage daughter, who is legally blind, but the nature of the argument wasn’t specified.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Nailed (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nailed%20%28down%29. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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