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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straightened (up)
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After a five-month, 120-game regular season featuring record crowds, women’s hockey enjoying a significant post-Olympic boost and with more expansion on the horizon, the Walter Cup playoff semifinalists are made up exclusively of the league’s old guard.—
John Wawrow,
Twin Cities,
30 Apr. 2026 -
The game will be made up on Thursday as part of a split doubleheader.—
Laura Fay,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sengun’s attempt at a game-winner when he got stood up by Jaxson Hayes on a turnaround baseline floater wasn’t the play the Rockets drew up, Udoka said.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The companies, working with Oz Architecture, drew up plans for a 17-story tower with about 400 units.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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Yet, amid all this anthropological interest in male behavior, a world beloved by men that is organized around the legacy of kings and a single precious metal has been hiding in plain sight, like a white Wakanda.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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This bowler bag has a wide interior that easily fits all of the essentials, and an interior zip pocket to help keep your things organized.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
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Kennedy has been groomed for public office since even before his father’s assassination in 1968.—
Isabel Vincent,
Vanity Fair,
27 Apr. 2026
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Met Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago It was Maxwell who lured and groomed Giuffre to be trafficked by Epstein, court records show.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Coffee grounds should not be disposed of in the sink.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Apr. 2026
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EcoSet’s mission is to get productions to consider what will happen to their materials when the show is wrapped – since everything that needs to be disposed of comes with an environmental and financial cost.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2026
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But those numbers capture only a fraction of deaths, which often are classified only by other, more immediate causes, such as bleeding in the brain.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2026
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The outlier is energy consumption with the average per garment being 1,90 kWh, which is classified as low impact.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
6 May 2026
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“Straightened (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straightened%20%28up%29. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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