peg (away)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peg (away)
Verb
  • When Michele Romano went missing last August, her family and their close friend, podcaster Lauren Lee Malloy, labored over flyers bearing her image: a woman with a gentle smile and a spill of braids, wrapped in a cozy, pale rainbow cardigan.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Sánchez had labored through two innings of an eventual 5-1 Phillies loss to the New York Mets.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And their struggling offense is becoming a major concern.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Behind her glamorous exterior, the real Dorothy was a closeted lesbian who struggled with substance abuse and was mistreated by the men within Hollywood’s studio system before ultimately committing suicide.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • If a cell harbors many black morphogens, for example, and a neighboring cell harbors few of them, then the molecules strive to move such that they are distributed as evenly as possible.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The school could strive for excellence and integrity while doing fewer things.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Thematically, the fractured friendship works well in a story that is so much about the joys of friendship and the pain of a camaraderie betrayed.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Trading Warren and some other top prospects for Alcántara could work, but what next?
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Peg (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peg%20%28away%29. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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