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as in spikes
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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.
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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.
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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.
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The tension is playing out in public as leaders including Marco Rubio fight back against extremism while others such as JD Vance make overtures to the fringe.
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Antonio, who has remained on good terms with Rochelle (and lives near the Hinkles in South Florida), supported Alex’s passion for the beautiful game while fending off overtures from football coaches.
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Competitors are launched high in the air and are expected to clear wide jumps throughout the event.
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How does this relate to the ensuing flashbacks of a wounded Castle hiding with a mother and her daughter and his pulse-pounding jumps from one harrowing hot frying pan situation to another?
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With pockets of protests against the Iranian government unfolding outside SoFi Stadium, Iran just took the field for warm-ups.
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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.
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As someone who usually gets Gel-X extensions, I was intrigued by the promise of a healthier alternative that still offered the durability and longevity of hard gel.
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Other guests sported subtle transformations, swapping their signature styles for straight extensions and sunset coloring.
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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.
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Many of the actions are continuations of boycotts that started earlier this year.
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“Run-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run-ups. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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