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tagged along

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past tense of tag along

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But the right-hander was tagged by Jake Bauer's two-run double in the fourth and David Hamilton's RBI single that chased Glasnow in the fifth and left Milwaukee trailing 4-3.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Since June 2025, the SIR has tagged roughly 130 million names for removal from the voter rolls.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

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Unfortunately, the Huskies took a precipitous fall when Coach Edsall high tailed it out of Connecticut for Maryland.

— Eric Womack, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Some 43 percet said a painting was among their first three purchases, tailed by sculpture at 25 percent, photography at 17 percent, or works on paper or digital art, both at 15 percent.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

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Electricity costs rank first, followed by water usage and environmental impact.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Billie Joe Armstrong followed Dangerfield on Instagram, and the two struck up a friendship that led to the Paradox opening for Green Day on the Atlanta stop of its Saviors Tour.

— Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

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Just 39% of Americans say AI has a positive impact on society, compared with 44% who believe its impact is negative, according to a national survey conducted this month by my company, Outward Intelligence.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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