as in landslide
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Recent Examples of walkover
Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Look for beach walkovers on Highway 98, which will lead you to the sand while protecting the natural plant life and dunes.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
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
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For instance, since 2009, there have been 50% more retirements or walkovers in the men’s draw of the U.S. Open, the final major of the year, than in the Australian Open, which takes place eight months earlier in January.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Look for beach walkovers on Highway 98, which will lead you to the sand while protecting the natural plant life and dunes.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkover
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There’s no consensus on what could be causing the landslides, but possibilities include groundwater seeping out of the hillsides, beach erosion, over-irrigation by homeowners and heavy rainfall, according to the grand jury.—
Michael Slaten,
Oc Register,
21 June 2025
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In Guerrero, Costa Chica has suffered the greatest impact, with landslides and downed trees and poles, officials said.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
19 June 2025
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San Antonio’s sweep of the latter series kept the average down to just 9.29 million viewers per game, while their 4-2 victory over the Nets in 2003 managed 9.86 million.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
23 June 2025
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Masked up: Federal officers — often wearing masks but not uniforms or displaying badges — are arresting people outside courtroom hearings, during traffic stops and in workplace sweeps.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
23 June 2025
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Pair this brush with your blow-dryer to refresh a second-day blowout.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
28 June 2025
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The National Transportation Safety Board just issued a report on the mid-flight blowout of a door plug on a flight last year on which airline?—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
24 June 2025
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An over-the-top romp with horror, sci-fi, and comedy elements, Wild Zero stars the Japanese rock trio Guitar Wolf as themselves, heroically leaping into action to help a fan when the dead start attacking.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Reuters reported that the incidents happened in the hours after Florida’s Game 6 romp over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday to secure its second straight Stanley Cup.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
19 June 2025
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But fiscal hawks aren’t willing to budge an inch, particularly after the Freedom Caucus celebrated victory in securing over $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and moving up the effective deadlines for Medicaid and Inflation Reduction Act energy credits.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2025
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Cloud, who has been one of the WNBA's more outspoken players in discussing politics in recent years, celebrated Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary on Wednesday in a series of social media posts.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2025
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It is said that Timur celebrated the 1366 conquest of Samarkand by dipping his fingers into the blood of an enemy corpse and printing three red circles on the door of a mosque.—
Dorothy Armstrong
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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From the nation’s dissolution by imperial powers in the 18th century to its violent conquest by Germany in World War II to its ruthless control by the Soviets, Poland has been betrayed repeatedly by those around it.—
Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 June 2025
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The big number: $2.25 million That’s roughly the walkaway money going to J.J. Spaun for winning the U.S. Open.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
19 June 2025
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Despite the walkaway, CDCR said nearly all who leave such programs without permission are eventually apprehended — a rate of 99% since 1977, officials touted in the news release.—
Daniel Hunt,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2025
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“Walkover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkover. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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