pegs (away)

present tense third-person singular of peg (away)

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Verb
  • The Prince of Darkness died in Birmingham, England, on July 22 at 76 years old, leaving behind a legacy as a legendary heavy metal rock performer who, after years of various headline-worthy antics and struggles with addiction, made his foray into reality TV.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Dane, who revealed in April that he had been diagnosed with ALS, will appear as Matthew in episode 209, a heroic firefighter who struggles to share his ALS diagnosis with his family.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The goalie, who strives to be in the Vezina Trophy conversation year after year and to lead the Wild to a Stanley Cup, loves Minnesota and loves playing for the Wild, in large part because of the defensive structure in front of him.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Leto never shakes the role’s robotic nature, even as his character strives to become more human, and his acting partners struggle to play off that in a meaningful way.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Darwent works with three other teachers.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That introduced me to works like Hiroshima, Mon Amour, The Battle of Algiers, and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, which really show how cinema can radically change how an entire nation sees itself.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Pegs (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pegs%20%28away%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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