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as in countdowns
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as in spikes
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Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.—
Ryan Gaydos OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026 -
Tennyson never made it to the Southern Section track preliminaries after winning the league title.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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The team identified a continuous midline feature that began as a fleshy crest along the neck and trunk and transitioned over the hips into a single row of spikes running down the tail — each spike positioned over a single vertebra and fitted to each other.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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In his keynote speech in Washington last week, just hours after Trump signed the executive order, Hawley went a step further than his recent overtures to American workers.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
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Cooper turned down Weiss' overtures to anchor it and left the network altogether, concerned about her approach, according to associates.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
3 June 2026
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Hernandez talked and laughed with female counterparts in between jumps.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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All eyes moved to the final event of the meet, the triple jump, where Cromwell sophomore Luke Haslam sat in first place with three jumps left.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2026
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During pre-game warm-ups, Spurs guard Stephon Castle was practicing driving into the line with a team staffer applying pressure.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
9 June 2026
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The New Jersey preteen was struck in the neck by a baseball during pregame warm-ups with Maple Shade Youth Baseball on May 26.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Morgan and Tilis have other potential extensions to sort out over the next few months, as cornerback Mike Jackson and quarterback Bryce Young are among potential candidates for new deals.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
12 June 2026
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The first attempts to compel vaccination in the 1850s appeared to many to be arbitrary and unneeded extensions of state power at a time when the effectiveness of the shots was still very much in dispute.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Stranger Things’ transformation—from a charming homage to ’80s blockbusters to a sprawling transmedia franchise—was ribbed later in last night’s episode, in a commercial parody imagining a string of continuations.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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Many of the actions are continuations of boycotts that started earlier this year.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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“Run-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run-ups. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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