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DeMeco Ryans will have the honor to try to mesh all of the newcomers together to put a division-championship team on the field.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
The series recounts how he leveraged technology, nostalgia and design to dramatically improve Renault’s fortunes, also leading the carmaker into electric, planet-friendly vehicles, which should mesh well with Kering’s strong sustainability ethos.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
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In the following months, they were seized at bus and train stations, beaten at a hospital and abducted by ambulance.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The attack killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and abducted 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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His absence goes from a missing person to one presumed kidnapped, but no one seems to have a clue.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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Starting in 2017, the two men allegedly sent thousands of dollars to co-conspirators in Cameroon for weapons and explosives, directing attacks that killed, injured or kidnapped civilians, according to the indictment.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Lam advocates for a broad reintroduction of discretion, through which people enmeshed in bureaucracies would be given more room to make individual decisions.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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As Stewart makes clear, conjuring has been enmeshed in American life for centuries.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Hatt was ejected from the truck, and Winkler was entrapped.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Aug. 2025
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That total lack of self-awareness and disregard for consequences fed right into Epstein’s warped way of entrapping others.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 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 12 Sep. 2025.
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