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relievers

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plural of reliever

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Achord meets with his two assistants, 36-year-old Corey Harkey, who played for the Rams from 2012-2016, and Jeff Koonz, who was a Packers defensive assistant last season and the West Virginia special teams coordinator before that.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
The report said only 14 percent expect greater use of AI shopping assistants to be the biggest behavioral change this season, and most are still concentrating their attention on shipping costs, discounts and operational execution.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026

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In the eligibility litigation against the NCAA, players and their attorneys have raised three main legal theories.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2026
City Council member Flor Alvidrez is questioning why Denver needed to hire outside lawyers for the two cases when the City Attorney's Office has a large contingent of attorneys.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of attorneys

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In Texas, lawmakers have been exploring a ban on foreign nationals using Texas surrogates – a move surrogacy experts worry could be the first step toward a statewide ban on the practice.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
All contracts must use all means available, including counseling to ensure surrogates comprehend them.

— Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of surrogates

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Freight rates have continued their ascent amid the ongoing delays and schedule reliability concerns compounding other factors like the war in Iran, which has kept fuel costs elevated.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026
This enables the robot to adjust its actions based on factors such as the incoming ball while maintaining coordinated and natural movement patterns.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of factors

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Its economy is in shambles, its proxies have been decimated by Israel and its allies in Iraq have been ousted.

— Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
On Wall Street, the founders observed how institutional investors sought to trade such uncertain binary outcomes as Brexit and the 2016 presidential election through proxies such as swaps, options, and other risk curves.

— Carson Becker, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of proxies

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The Nordic Co-Production Market brings together Nordic and international producers, financiers, distributors and sales agents around projects in development.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
The actor stars opposite AnnaSophia Robb, with the two playing a pair of FBI agents who investigate what seems to be an impossible homicide inside the prison.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of agents

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Most importantly, Mestemaker needs those valuable mental reps to slow his eyes and raise his comfort level reading out the play.

— Dane Brugler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
First-round defensive tackle Peter Woods impressed in the first padded practice, splitting reps against Trey Smith and getting the better of backup interior linemen, Sweeney wrote from Day 5.

— Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of reps

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Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.

— Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
In 2025, the Pentagon explored privatizing commissaries, soliciting interest from commercial retailers and investment firms to take over operations at 178 domestic locations.

— Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026

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