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sallying

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present participle of sally

as in jumping

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At Emma Long Metropolitan Park in Northwest Austin, the number of burglaries reported within 300 feet of the park more than quadrupled from 2024 to 2025, jumping from 15 to 68.

— Data Reporter, Austin American Statesman, 29 Oct. 2026
Garcia last played in the Ryder Cup in 2021, several months before jumping to LIV.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

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Rain that turned into the season's first significant snow, accompanied by strong wind, complicated the already difficult task of tackling the blaze and firefighters had to pull out overnight after several hours, officials said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Compassion doesn’t mean that presidents or other public officials should bow to enemies or surrender common sense in tackling the world’s harsh realities.

— Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

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Florida has had a tortured relationship with this Biden-era money, originally intended to bolster states’ public charging networks for electric cars.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
There were heiress ghosts and cat ghosts and soldier ghosts charging through forests.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

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Severe king tide flooding is covering street after street across several Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods, trapping residents in their homes and raising water levels by six inches above previous king tides.

— Joan Murray, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
The 18-story building collapsed Friday in a busy commercial street of the capital Nairobi, trapping construction workers and people reportedly inside shops on the ground and basement floors that had been illegally occupied.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

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Mean-mugging white classmates who, in turn, were sheepish and chastened.

— Anne Haley, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
And yet, Simon Farnaby is perhaps most recognizable for mugging his rather expressive and jovial face, usually beneath a crop of untamed curly hair, across a series of scene-stealing comic cameos.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

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In July, Brown pleaded guilty to a count of affray at London’s Southwark Crown Court for attacking a music producer with a tequila bottle on the head.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
The approval of Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic cancer drug Rasonque earlier this year showed that a medicine capable of attacking mutations in a group of genes called RAS could prolong survival for patients with the particularly aggressive cancer.

— Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026

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Developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, the system, called Fast Feature Field (F³), processes information from event cameras, which detect changes in light rather than capturing conventional images.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The latest season, currently being aired, depicts a fictional Chinese intelligence agency capturing and torturing some of the Japanese spies.

— Reuters, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026

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In a process known as autotomy, the assailing bee leaves its stinger operating independently, driven by its own muscles, various glands, neural ganglia, and a venom sac.

— Mike McRae October 12, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
The German leader countered that the far-right party won't win a majority in the country, assailing its stance toward Ukraine and rhetoric on migration.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

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