as in to crack
to yield to mental or emotional stress
with her claustrophobia, it wouldn't take a day for her to wig out on a submarine
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One by one, Pryor named 42 defendants who had been caught up in sting operations by zealous investigators who manufactured crack cocaine and sold it, arresting the buyers at the end of the process.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026 -
The monochrome sneaker is made from an alligator print and cracked leather on the upper.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
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OpenAI’s version has already melted down once and is structurally contested heading into an IPO.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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What beef tallow is and how it’s made Beef tallow is a white, shelf-stable cooking fat made by rendering — or melting down — the fatty tissue that surrounds a cow’s organs, according to Michelle Crouch at AARP.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
19 May 2026
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Green Bay then choked away a 21-3 halftime lead and a 21-6 advantage after three quarters in an eventual 31-27 loss to Chicago in the Wild Card round.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Police in the northwest Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights have released a sketch of a man accused of attacking and choking a woman this past weekend.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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And although Democrats went back and forth with the White House and congressional Republicans over a possible compromise, the talks eventually broke down, leading the GOP to pursue an alternate path forward.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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But the company touts itself as a more sophisticated method than merely detecting if a work is present in training data, rather breaking down on a more granular level how the works are being used.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
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At the onset of the 1990s, the Berlin wall had fallen, and the USSR had broken up.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
7 June 2026
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The show also appears to have been broken up into five acts.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
7 June 2026
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“Wig (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wig%20%28out%29. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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