as in to fasten (on)
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This season, give it a modern update by pairing it with ballet sneakers or mesh flats that feel fresh.—
Lauren Alexis Fisher,
Footwear News,
28 May 2025 -
But the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not mesh with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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As a longtime volunteer with Southwest Search Dogs, Swain trained her dogs, Spencer, a black Labrador retriever, and Rita, a yellow Labrador retriever, to follow scents up to five miles in efforts to find runaway or abducted children and adults in distress.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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Not being able to abduct grade-schoolers is an affront to his clan’s heritage.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Chloe Pirrie in Dept. Q Justin Downing—Netflix Merritt was kidnapped and held within a hyperbaric chamber in remote Scotland for four years, and was long presumed dead before DCI Morck reopened the case.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
29 May 2025
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The remaining five defendants are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s leader and related charges, including recruiting the Colombian commandos.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Between 1500 and 1800, there was hardly a year when great powers weren’t enmeshed in some kind of war.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
26 May 2025
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All the networks are enmeshed in related lawsuits against Lake and the White House.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
7 May 2025
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Most horror flicks entrap their characters in one location or put them in some sort of unique, tense situation (think: satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong truck driver, attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final Destination, Death works with the great mundane canvas of ordinary life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Early motherhood entraps them—and their children—in a bleak socioeconomic cycle that’s almost impossible to break.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 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 8 Jun. 2025.
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