as in to depart
to leave a place often for another
he eagerly sallied forth from his small town to seek a new life in the bustling city
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Never depart from live charcoal unattended.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Special late-night trains depart about an hour after each show on each day of the music festival.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Forward Evan Rodrigues, one of the few mainstays to take the ice Thursday, played just one shift and 49 seconds before exiting with a broken finger on his right hand in the Panthers’ eventual 3-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild at Amerant Bank Arena.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Traffic to enter and exit the subdivision is often congested during rush hour.—
March 26,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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Records show frequent transfers—sometimes in rapid succession—moving funds from TourProdEnter to the Florida LLCs, and in some instances continuing even after a company had been formally dissolved.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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But their discharge petition, introduced last week, is short of the 218 signatures needed to move forward.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Having faced Big Ten physicality all season, first-year Iowa coach Ben McCollum’s team went toe to toe with Florida’s punishing front court.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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Part of the money will also go toward expansion of Philander Smith's health education facilities, including space for soon-to-be radiologists and phlebotomists.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Mar. 2026
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The move will allow TSA employees to get their paychecks as early as March 30 instead of waiting for back pay after the shutdown ends.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Hope Harvill got the game winner in the 17th minute off an assist by Paola Granados for the Mustangs.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Mair missed a 3 from the corner with 5 seconds to play for Duke, but the Blue Devils retained possession after the ball went off an LSU player.—
Joe Davidson
March 27,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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The crash comes just more than five years after Woods was involved in a serious rollover crash near Los Angeles, when his car went off the road going more than 80 mph and down an embankment in the Pacific Palisades in February 2021.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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Maintaining this position required cutting out the powerful coastal Nigerian traders who had served as middlemen between the British merchants and the hinterland producers.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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That was, until the A/C seemed to cut out somewhere around what felt like the 45-minute mark.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Thousands of immigrants have been ambushed by masked ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza over the past year while walking out of court hearings and held in custody at the complex, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Three Air Canada Express crew members were seen walking out and giving reporters a thumb's up.—
Mahsa Saeidi,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Sally (forth).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sally%20%28forth%29. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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