as in to buckle (down)
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Buddy Hield scored 20 points for a fourth straight game and Draymond Green pitched in 18 points, eight rebounds and five assists as six Warriors scored double figures.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Thiel, his old venture partner, seeded a U.S. Senate run with $10 million, then pitched in another $5 million as the race heated up.Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The designer started to ponder the idea a couple years ago, while digging in vintage archives during a stay in Paris.Sandra Salibian, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
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Tyler specifically digs in about pregnancy as well as the fears of becoming a father.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
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The scholars borrow from critical theory—including a Marxist focus on the alienation of labor and postmodern pessimism—with some going so far as to compare the resorts to slave plantations.Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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During the latter half of that period, according to Marques’s review of British consular reports, more than one-third of all slaving vessels that made landfall in Rio de Janeiro did so under an American flag.Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
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On the Tuesday after Labor Day weekend 2019, Scott Jones did his usual morning chore of dropping his eldest kids off at school and returning to his Arizona home office to knuckle down to work.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 June 2024
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The Biden administration appears to be playing at war rather than knuckling down and winning it.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
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Few were laboring under the intention that American buyers are spending big on originals again, mind.Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
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The film was shot in Wolof, Senegal’s lingua franca, which Diop herself labored to understand.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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One of the roadies came out to bang away on the piano, the notes more felt than heard, part of the noise.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
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The manager demonstrated how to use the rock hammers, and then people got to banging away, trying to find opals in the rock.Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
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Netanyahu has struggled to maintain a hold over his fragile, right-wing governing coalition and its muddle of competing interests, whose collapse could spell the end of his leadership.Tara John, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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But since the start of the Big Ten slate, Moss has struggled to find his stride.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Apply (oneself).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apply%20%28oneself%29. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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