as in whips (up)
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Both players were consensus top ten picks early on in the draft process, but now often fall to the teens or early twenties.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025 -
The protagonist picks themselves up again only to ultimately end up in a bad situation.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Sets in motion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sets%20in%20motion. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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