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pounced (on)

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past tense of pounce (on)

as in jumped

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And a major academic publisher, Elsevier, reported submissions to its journals jumped about 68% from 2021 to 2025.

— TODD WALLACK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
The skydivers — including Rutz — jumped from a plane and held each other’s hands Friday morning.

— Iris Kwok Follow Nov. 6, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

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Precision fabrication for future integration The Berlin team tackled this hurdle by designing an industrial-grade fabrication pipeline built around three core stages.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
Instead of a Hail Mary on the final play, Jayden Daniels threw a check down to tight end Chig Okonkwo, who was immediately tackled.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026

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Anyone who follows Florida news knows that the concept of open government isn’t just under threat in this state; it’s being aggressively attacked.

— Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2026
Police developed a theory that Rebekah had been attacked in the trailer and then forcibly removed.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2026

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And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged to the camera about how awful their lives were at the hands of the humans misusing them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Stuff like Caitlin Clark getting mugged with no foul being called, or Sophie Cunningham pointing at some obnoxious player, or ESPN drooling over a coach wearing a pro-trans shirt.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Acton has assailed Ramaswamy for not committing to selling off his investments in tech and AI stocks, calling these holdings a conflict of interest.

— Naomi Nix, Time, 29 Oct. 2026
Democratic and Republican lawmakers assailed the diesel deal, which came a month after Trump signed a bill to impose tariffs on countries that import Russian oil.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026

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Briana Winkle says her son's school principal called to tell her there was video footage of her 7-year-old son, Maddox, being physically assaulted by his teacher inside his special education classroom.

— Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2026
The members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 are constantly assaulted in incidents ranging from a punch in the face to one in which a train operator was stabbed 11 times and nearly killed.

— John Chiarello, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026

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