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Recent Examples of pratfallBreaking creates the easiest laugh available in comedy this side of a pratfall.—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025 Her legs splay, tilt and leap readily into pratfall action.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024 Something that tonight’s cold open heated up with, drawing from the actual interview transcript on both the FNC pratfall and Baier’s questioning of Joe Biden’s mental faculties.—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024 An early pratfall involving a faulty dishwasher proves a red herring; the director Lawrence Lamont and the screenwriter Syreeta Singleton find their best humor on the character level, in clever dialogue and sharp line deliveries from the entire ensemble.—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pratfall
Conservation groups say the spill catalyzed innovative restoration work across the Gulf Coast, but are alarmed at the recent halt of a flagship land-creation project in Louisiana.
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Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
The spill was also toxic enough to kill about half of the marine life in its path, the journal study said.
Others said the length of time a slip is used should not be a factor.
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
What was everyone worried about? Back-to-back defeats to Aston Villa and Everton had seen Nuno Espirito Santo’s side slip into sixth place, outside of the Champions League qualification spots and into a slight mood of dismay.
The Padres need more from a star on the mound, too, as Dylan Cease has begun his walk year with just one quality start in his first six trips (5.76 ERA) to the mound.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
Anyway, United fans have a trip to Bilbao to look forward to this week and Liverpool have… been knocked out of Europe by Paris Saint-Germain.
Alexia planned to attend Harvard Law School in the coming fall semester.
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Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2025
The vibrant and always-bustling Classic City of Athens, Georgia is now home to two new boutique hotels, both of which made their debut this winter—just in time for the University of Georgia’s graduation and the upcoming fall football season.
The most obvious misstep is not having a solid online presence.
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Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
They got married in 2019 Despite their initial misstep, sparks flew between JJ and Melody, and the couple wed on July 12, 2019, in a romantic beachfront ceremony.
But the recent stock-market stumble, spearheaded by Tesla and other tech giants, serves as a wake-up call that building a balanced investment portfolio should be taken seriously, and revisited at least once a year, if not sooner.
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Russ Wiles,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
Read: How Bridget Jones’s Diary predicted the age of oversharing
Her trajectory over the next decade-plus (in another round of newspaper columns; another book; and a third movie, Bridget Jones’s Baby, in 2016, not based on a book) certainly had its requisite stumbles.
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