as in dials
to make a telephone call to
our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match
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as in wins
to obtain (as a goal) through effort
touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term
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The keyboard and touchpad are areas where Dell dials back from the higher-end XPS 14 and 16.
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Subsequently, the series dials back to Vienna in 1781 (10 years before Mozart’s death).
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That holds regardless of which model wins the benchmark race, because the agent arrives as a guest in the system of record, not as its successor.
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If someone wins, that team has a chance (with three points, a 1-2-0 record and its status hinging on goal differential) and the loser would be eliminated.
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Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.
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If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?
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The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.
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How Clert’s ambitious adaptation achieves this, in under 90 minutes to boot, is best experienced in real time.
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Prior to having a conversation with Carmy about franchising, Ebraheim phones Albert for a pep talk.
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In the movie, Yetnikoff phones up MTV CEO Bob Pittman and starts screaming at him.
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By the end of the novel, Sun Wukong attains Buddhahood.
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But if a person seeking status is already wealthy or attains corporate sponsorship, for instance, a viable pathway to citizenship opens up, even if only slightly.
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Assign someone on your team to track which standard gains adoption and position your organization to participate early, before path dependencies lock in around you.
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These worker gains date from April settlements reached just in time to avert a strike.
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Each time picks five players, with the winner decided by whichever team scores more out of those five attempts.
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Rodrigo's third album scores the Grammy winner her biggest week yet on the Billboard 200.
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“Rings (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rings%20%28up%29. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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