search (for)

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Verb
  • In addition to financial damages, the association seeks to have the court issue an injunction to force them to comply and change their behaviors.
    Christyne D. Santisteban, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • If symptoms do not improve, seek medical attention.5 Anaphylaxis, or severe allergic reactions, typically occur seconds or minutes after consuming an allergen and require immediate medical support.
    Jenna Anderson, Health, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • According to former Mavs player Chandler Parsons Doncic cried after finding out he was being traded after purchasing a $15 million home.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
  • By season’s end, expect to find out more about the goats’ purpose.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Because these WMAs are designed to provide two conflicting services — to maintain wildlife habitat and to offer recreation, including hunting opportunities that may scare the birds away — no one really knows how the resident geese perceive the situation.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • She's abruptly fired from her exercise show when her creepy boss (Dennis Quaid) decides to hunt for younger talent to be the face of the series.
    Eric Andersson, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Every season, Netflix’s hit action-thriller The Night Agent introduces a new story and new characters around title character Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), who has been accompanied so far by Luciane Buchanan’s Rose Larkin.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • While targets can focus efforts and create accountability, they must be accompanied by robust unconscious bias training and inclusive, psychologically safe environments.
    London Business School, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Bates was no longer running down sidelines to knock the cleats off kick returners.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Young then ran down the street and looked down at his hand to saw his fingers were missing.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The critters dig up the bulbs that my wife spends hours planting.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
  • These varieties produce drab-looking but tasty fruiting bodies called truffles, which mammals like dogs or boars will find by smell—then dig up and eat.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In the video, a vehicle crash can be heard prior to Jiang's Prius entering the frame, closely followed by a dark SUV.
    Emma Steele, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Eight months later, when Cox heard Lombardi called the FBI, Lombardi said, Cox canceled his contract.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • It was detected about 12 miles east-northeast from the town of Falls City, which is roughly a 45-mile drive southeast from San Antonio.
    Mitchell Willetts, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Conversely, where organic compounds were reliably detected, there were no signs of deep or surface activity.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2025
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