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The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026 -
At another point, a ranger waded through the mud of a mangrove forest and clambered into a mangrove to catch a bird for a blood sample, before doing the same trek in reverse to put it back.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
18 Jan. 2026
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On his YouTube show Monday, Smith described the chaos as guests scrambled to react without clear information.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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It can be baked, air-fried, grilled, scrambled, or stir-fried.—
Olivia Tarantino,
Martha Stewart,
28 Apr. 2026
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Back in another lifetime for both of them, according to Kenny and Katie, the Polar Bear once got 260 at-bats — and bopped 21 home runs — for the Mets in games started by … his old friend, deGrom.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2026
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The sea of heads bopped rhythmically and bodies swayed wildly.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Recovery rates climbed above 75 percent for several metals with slightly longer treatment times.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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His drive to eliminate Argentina’s chronic inflation has stalled, unemployment has climbed and the economy has contracted.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Carlos Mendoza isn’t to blame, nor are this group of players, who are being shuffled around the field like Yahtzee dice.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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While the administration has shuffled funding to pay DHS employees during the shutdown, those funds are expected to dry up in the first week of May if Congress doesn’t act beforehand.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
28 Apr. 2026
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Buses of fans turned up, and paparazzi swarmed and in one case kept jumping in front of the camera and the shot and got in a kerfuffle with crew.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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Sweeney slung panties from her new lingerie line, SYRN, which launched earlier this year in January, into a sea of wide-eyed festival goers who swarmed Diplo's desert stage as the electric beats by the chart-topping DJ bumped in the background.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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Troy — who is a Pony of the Americas, according to his owners, the Beaulieu family — pranced around his yard upon exiting the hospital trailer, receiving pets and apples.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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And the preacher pranced around the stage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Mother Mary strutted to a solid limited opening as The Christophers expanded nicely and Exit 8 kept going.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
19 Apr. 2026
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Shortly after his victorious sit-in with Teddy Swims on Coachella’s main stage, David Lee Roth strutted into the media tent.—
Jeff Miller,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Shimmied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shimmied. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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