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Recent Examples of walkover
Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2025
The Texans had a walkover win over a flawed Chargers team that wasn’t ready to play playoff football.
—Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Subsequent slides featured the actor working out, goofing off a bit on set, doing an impressive front walkover — and a hilarious image of Grande's dress getting caught in the groin of his pants!
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
The old Dragon Quest games weren’t exactly a walkover and were often quite technical, even with their limited options available.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Noun
For amenities like restrooms, a handicap accessible walkover, ample parking, and a lifeguard on duty, consider the Santa Clara Regional beach access.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2025
The Texans had a walkover win over a flawed Chargers team that wasn’t ready to play playoff football.
—Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Subsequent slides featured the actor working out, goofing off a bit on set, doing an impressive front walkover — and a hilarious image of Grande's dress getting caught in the groin of his pants!
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
The old Dragon Quest games weren’t exactly a walkover and were often quite technical, even with their limited options available.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkover
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Natural disasters are increasing so much in frequency and intensity that even places once believed to be insulated from the worst of what’s to come—the cool, wet Pacific Northwest, for example—are experiencing greater effects from wildfire, storms, flooding, landslides and drought.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Proposition 36 went into effect in December after a landslide victory at the ballot box.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Padres will hunt for the three-game sweep on Sunday afternoon.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
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In the Trinity League: Orange Lutheran 6, JSerra 0: Orange Lutheran completed a three-game sweep of JSerra with a combined shutout from Sam Principe and Caden Miller.—
Michael Huntley,
Oc Register,
11 Apr. 2025
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Unless there’s a true blowout team performance, chefs who did great dishes inevitably provide cover for chefs who whiffed it — or vice versa, since losing chefs can tank a team and make chefs who nailed it ineligible for the win.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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In a gritty, nervy, ultimately joyous blowout performance, the Magic routed the Atlanta Hawks 120-95 in a Play-In game, officially punching their ticket to the playoffs.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2025
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Save for outlier performances such as what Cleveland’s Ty Jerome did to the Heat in Sunday night’s Game 1 romp and what Davion Mitchell has done in his blaze of glory the past few weeks for the Heat, the reality is that of the top seven players in this series, the Heat might only have two.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The league may be a Liverpool romp, but a Champions League spot is in Forest’s grasp.—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Crow-Armstrong crisply addressed the topic and then went about his pregame routine before starring in Sunday’s 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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His victory was the culmination of an 11-year journey of doubts and disappointments, of resilience and reckoning, of vexation before validation.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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His account begins in the Spanish colonial period, when Spaniards and other Europeans debated the philosophical underpinnings of conquest and slavery, setting in motion an ideological battle between humanism and barbarism which, Grandin thinks, continues to this day.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Seemingly spurred on by a recent Bollywood movie’s portrayal of Aurangzeb’s violent conquests against a revered Hindu king, the violence led to dozens of injuries and arrests, prompting Nagpur authorities to impose a curfew.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Though if Minnesota were to sell on the lower end, say for $1.5 billion, its walkaway number would be much lower unless the potential buyer agreed to absorb all of the debt, a scenario that is unlikely.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Donald Trump is suffering an historic descent in the campaign’s final days, an ongoing freefall that’s turning what looked like a walkaway for the former president into what’s most likely a Kamala Harris victory.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2024
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“Walkover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkover. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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