tub-thump

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Verb
  • On Monday, another longtime big leaguer, a World Series winner who once won the AL RBI crown and is one of only 18 players in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game announced plans to move into another professional sport: pickleball.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The companies had announced official negotiations to merge last December, and discussions were set to conclude in June this year.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
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  • Additionally, Chili’s has been advertising its prices against McDonald’s and other fast-food chains, but McDonald’s is adapting.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The website advertises studio apartments for rent between $1,470 and $1,710 a month.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
  • That night, fans were encouraged to bring a disco record to the stadium for Dahl to blow up between games of a July 12 doubleheader.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The story of Dieter that so cracks up Helena could also be interpreted as something about the pointlessness of trying to coexist with nature, when man is meant to conquer it.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025
  • My only expectations were to eat (more than) my share of Adam Aron’s popcorn and to watch my older daughter crack up seeing her favorite graphic novel come to life.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • She also was criticized for promoting her hair care brand during the press tour.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Trump and his administrative have fired independent inspectors generals of 17 agencies, purged the Justice Department of attorneys who worked on the criminal investigations targeting him and pushed out top FBI executives promoted by former FBI Director Christopher Wray.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Based on a script from the 1970s that Crichton revamped with the help of Steven Spielberg, the widely acclaimed and widely watched ER ran on NBC from 1994 to 2009.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Deafheaven, the long-running and critically acclaimed metal band, have signed with Roadrunner Records and will make their debut on the label with Lonely People With Power.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
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