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Adjective
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With both Macklin Celebrini and Brent Burns serving penalties, Manson, in a 4-on-4 situation, took a pass from Valeri Nichushkin and blasted a shot past a screened Askarov for his fifth goal of the season.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026 -
The Red Wings tied it with 59 seconds left in the period on Seider's shot from near the blue line that eluded a screened Hildeby.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Dec. 2025
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In October, dogs specially trained in human remains detection scanned the area where Mercury had confessed to leaving Cheryl’s body.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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For the Academy’s restoration, the original 35mm picture negative was scanned at 4k and digitally restored in a 4k workflow.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2026
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If your city isn’t listed, either no restaurants there were inspected that month, or none earned a perfect score.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2026
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The Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections issued the temporary closure notice so the building could be inspected for safety and structural integrity, the post said.—
Laura Fay,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Mar. 2026
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Further, the audit said that DCF did not meet the clinical needs of multiple female teenagers whose records were reviewed by auditors.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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Because the diagnosis was so unusual, zoo staff examined the bodies of 64 free-ranging roof rats that had either been euthanized in the course of regular pest control or found dead on the property.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The test examined everything from the launch sequence to the deployment and separation of the reentry vehicles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Picked over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picked%20over. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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