After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.
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Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
And don’t be fooled by their small size — these dishes hold a surprising amount of food.
As Rossini stowed her purse in a tiny back office, a manager named Katie Atlas was onboarding a new employee, a young woman who fiddled nervously with her necklace.
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Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Communities across the globe probably independently fiddled their way towards the invention of proto lip balms over and over.
The ads have now encroached into social media without proper disclosures with many online pharmacies not following the same rules that many pharmaceutical companies follow, a senior White House official said.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
From the deadly 2025 Los Angeles fires to the devastating 2019-2020 Australian bushfires and the 2018 wildfire in Athens, Greece, flames have increasingly encroached upon human settlements, claiming lives and livelihoods.
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Seyd Teymoor Seydi,
The Conversation,
21 Aug. 2025
The Falcons played their opener two weeks ago and then had a bye.
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Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Sep. 2025
The team behind the research noted that many of these genes are tied to developmental delay, which may have played a role in the slower pace of postnatal brain growth in humans compared to chimpanzees.
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