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Recent Examples of armed
Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Other Big Stories Image In Colombia, clashes between two rival armed groups have killed at least 80 people and forced thousands to flee.
—German Lopez, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Following their initial visit, armed men then take Eunice and her second-eldest daughter to a mysterious location, where they’re interrogated about both Rubens and their own Communist ties.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2025
Two officers then fired their service weapons several times in the direction of the armed suspect.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Jan. 2025
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However, the prank carried out on one Springfield home on Jan. 19 had the group speeding away from an armed man, police said in a probable cause statement filed on Jan. 20.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Other Big Stories Image In Colombia, clashes between two rival armed groups have killed at least 80 people and forced thousands to flee.
—German Lopez, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Following their initial visit, armed men then take Eunice and her second-eldest daughter to a mysterious location, where they’re interrogated about both Rubens and their own Communist ties.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2025
Two officers then fired their service weapons several times in the direction of the armed suspect.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armed
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Later this year, keep an eye open for MICAS, the contemporary art museum arriving in Valletta that’s a glass box bolted onto the centuries-old fortified walls of the city.—
Tanvi Chheda,
AFAR Media,
17 Jan. 2025
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Based on the award-winning manga by Hajime Isayama, the series is set many years ago, when the last remnants of humanity was forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
10 Jan. 2025
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The Scotland youth international has several admirers in Europe prepared to provide a first-team pathway and a wage of more than £20,000 a week.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
26 Dec. 2024
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Third-party experts are well-equipped to build comprehensive talent agendas, and addressing this proactively allows investors to be prepared for the challenges ahead.—
Dan Hawkins,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Each child was assigned a part of a flowerbed and chose what to do with it.—
Alon Avital,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
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Since 2010, the NCAA has required transgender athletes assigned male at birth to undergo at least one year of testosterone suppression therapy before becoming eligible to compete on women's teams.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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Replacement benefits may be issued to cover the eligible household's loss, up to the maximum SNAP benefit amount allotted for the month.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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About $6 billion of grant funding has been allotted to the project, which will take up around 6,500 square feet of the high school, according to Callender.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Superfan Jack Hoffman Tragically Passes Away at 19 Notre Dame plays a ton of man-to-man, which is ripe for Ohio State's offense.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Neighbors used to wait until the fruit was ripe, then come knocking on the front door, practically begging to pick from the trees.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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Many schools allocated the first shifts to middle and high schools, assuming older kids could better handle going to school in the dark, notes Terra Ziporyn Snider, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Start School Later.—
Lynne Peeples,
TIME,
6 Jan. 2025
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And that’s not nearly enough for the hundreds of millions of dollars and draft resources allocated after the 2019 roster dismantling.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armed. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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