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Recent Examples of tee off
Roughly 100 kids beat the heat to tee off with Davis and Sorenstam.
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025
When do players tee off in the first two rounds?
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025
The first hole from which Harry tees off on Thursday afternoon, for example, is usually the last hole on the course.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 31 July 2025
Kittle will tee off in Friday’s first round at 8:45 a.m. with NFL alumni Larry Fitzgerald Jr. and Dwight Freeney, while 49ers teammate Kyle Juszczyk goes off the back nine at 8:43 a.m. with Jerome Bettis and Marcus Allen.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025
When do players tee off in the first two rounds?
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025
The first hole from which Harry tees off on Thursday afternoon, for example, is usually the last hole on the course.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 31 July 2025
Kittle will tee off in Friday’s first round at 8:45 a.m. with NFL alumni Larry Fitzgerald Jr. and Dwight Freeney, while 49ers teammate Kyle Juszczyk goes off the back nine at 8:43 a.m. with Jerome Bettis and Marcus Allen.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tee off
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Robert Bianco, a longtime TV critic for USA Today, emphasized how strongly Levin supported him even when Bianco’s reviews angered Levin’s sources.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Platner also worked as a contractor for Constellis, a successor to the security company Blackwater, which has angered some online activists.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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That may get them guest slots to rant on MSNBC, but that won’t help Chicago neighborhoods that are being held hostage by homegrown criminals who are shooting, carjacking and robbing them of their security and vitality.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, the film includes audio of President Nixon snarling about Hersh in conversations with his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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For the privileged few, a cool $27,000 can pay for a gourmet cuisine just yards from F1 cars snarling past.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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Stanford’s passing game has continued to sputter in the first season under general manager Andrew Luck.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
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Without him, the Chiefs sputtered on offense to start the game, but Herbert and the Chargers were locked in from kickoff.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The research is even more interesting because of how different this region of the Milky Way is from the galactic plane, where supernovas usually rage.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Fleeing the raging war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Darfur state, residents sought shelter in the Marra Mountains area where food and medication are insufficient.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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National outlets raved about his production and fans implored the Royals to bring him up.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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Shorter shoppers rave about them, too.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
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The permit applications showed oil companies requested to flare or vent more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year, enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions of dollars of tax revenue had the gas been captured.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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The day began with a controversial story in the Chicago Tribune, in which Reese vented some longstanding frustration with the organization for not building a better team around her.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
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