as in to fasten (on)
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Rosalía studied musicology in college, and over the last eight years has often meshed a wide variety of genres and influences in her songs.—
Dan Rys,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025 -
With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Cissé received death threats several days before she was abducted, according to the Timbuktu mayor.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Climate regulations are being destructed, diversity programs are being reducted, innocent people are being abducted, AI systems are being inducted, and, on top of that, nuclear tests are now being conducted.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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Every single person who's arrived has talked about violence, about dead bodies, about people being killed, about people being kidnapped, about people being kept hostage.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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The fourth is a Thai citizen who was kidnapped during the attack.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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One of the most disturbing sequences on this show is Gacy luring in and entrapping 15-year-old Robert Piest (Ryker Baloun), whose disappearance is where the series starts.—
Derek Lawrence,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Courts have sometimes concluded the government's conduct was outrageous when police have used brutality against a defendant or government agents entrapped a defendant.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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