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sallied

verb

past tense of sally

as in jumped

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The 10-year yield has jumped a full percentage point since right before the Iran war started in late February and a half point in the past two months alone.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026
In fact, the Royals jumped out to a 4-0 lead behind Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026

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Omar’s security officers quickly tackled Kazmierczak to the ground, then took him to police officers who placed him under arrest.

— Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Delane injured his shoulder while being tackled on the interception, an ailment that cost him time in training camp.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

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Sutter County health officials also confirmed a bat captured inside a Yuba City home in August was rabid, The Sacramento Bee previously reported.

— Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026
The video, which was captured from The Mark on Brickell Bay, a nearby condo building, showed one of the cars in flames and a plume of black smoke.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026

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Kalshi and Polymarket, which have been assailed by critics for encouraging financial risk taking by making betting more accessible, are now using the promise of free groceries to win over New Yorkers.

— Matthew Tan, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
And yet 20 years ago, the haka’s future was in doubt — assailed by protests from rival teams that New Zealand gained an unfair advantage from performing it as the final action before kick-off in a Test match.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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At the conclusion of the three-day inquest, Lizzie was arrested and charged in the double murder of her father and stepmother.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Last October, investigators with the Vernon Police Department arrested Pietras and charged him with 20 counts of second-degree larceny and 60 counts of intent to defraud funeral service contracts.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026

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And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged to the camera about how awful their lives were at the hands of the humans misusing them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Stuff like Caitlin Clark getting mugged with no foul being called, or Sophie Cunningham pointing at some obnoxious player, or ESPN drooling over a coach wearing a pro-trans shirt.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Firefighters saved a 12-year-old girl who was trapped in a town house that caught fire in the Florida Keys Monday morning, Monroe County Fire Rescue said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Some people were trapped inside vehicles, while another was tossed out into an intersection.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of trapped

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Six of the gunmen were killed, according to police, who said one suicide bomber attacked the nearby office of an intelligence agency.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
When a wealthy, royal woman is attacked by bandits, the two men save her and are welcomed to the castle as valiant knights.

— Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

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