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After hearing testimony from several witnesses in the prosecution’s case, that grand jury handed up an indictment charging the child’s adoptive mother and adoptive grandparents with murder and a special circumstances allegation of torture.
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
Wade threw his hands up after his pass to James and the photo captured the sequence perfectly.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
Mbappe celebrated in his usual way in recent months, running back to the centre circle, throwing his hands up in the air in an outpouring of joy and anger and urging his team-mates to push on.
—Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Their piquant sensitivity and horror have no equal in Millennial literature and journalism, which have become merely, rabidly politicized — so very socialist and anti-American that today’s media throws its hands up at the L.A. conflagration.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
Wade threw his hands up after his pass to James and the photo captured the sequence perfectly.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
Mbappe celebrated in his usual way in recent months, running back to the centre circle, throwing his hands up in the air in an outpouring of joy and anger and urging his team-mates to push on.
—Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Their piquant sensitivity and horror have no equal in Millennial literature and journalism, which have become merely, rabidly politicized — so very socialist and anti-American that today’s media throws its hands up at the L.A. conflagration.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Hand up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20up. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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