as in to eke out
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These 515 V3s, along with other New Balance sneakers, offer a wide, roomy toe box, ensuring that my toes aren’t squeezed together and out of alignment.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025 -
The shoes fold in half, becoming compact enough to fit in your personal item or squeeze into a corner of your carry-on.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Oct. 2025
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This discipline, debating until the best idea survives, teaches future leaders to welcome scrutiny, pressure-test their own reasoning, and make tough calls with limited information.—
Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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In June, Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition narrowly survived a push for early elections, which could have led to the dissolution of his government and advanced an election set for October 2026.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Short cruises, typically lasting less than a week, are growing in popularity for quick getaways.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The 22-game run lasted from January 16, 1897, to September 18 later that year and helped the Birmingham club do the double of league title and FA Cup in the spring — something that wouldn’t be achieved again until Tottenham Hotspur replicated it in 1960-61.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Murphy tries to wring everything out of this showcase, in both his solo turns and his exchanges with Tracey Ullman’s fellow supervisor and Emily Watson’s in-house therapist.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Others wrung riches from the network; Berners-Lee assumed the mantle of moral authority, fighting to safeguard the web’s openness and promote equitable access.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Giants cannot afford to finish in the back half of the league in rotation ERA next season and hope to be a good or consistent team.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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There are few litigants besides the nation’s largest bank that could afford to pay such costs.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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Basini played a key role in striking TF1’s distribution deal with Netflix — the first time a European free-to-air leader will see its channels and on-demand service carried on the global streamer — starting in 2026.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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Despite the new name, this laptop carries on the modern XPS redesign that first debuted in 2023.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
5 Oct. 2025
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Seattle fans can already envision a future where a one-loss Seahawks team wrests control of the division away from Los Angeles in early November, but Tampa Bay has to be the first domino to fall.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Hamas’s founding goal was to wrest control of the Palestinian national movement from its secular rivals and transform it into an Islamist cause.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Scrape (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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