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Recent Examples of flatfoot Osteotomy: Cutting and shifting bones to change the shape of a flexible flatfoot. Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024 There was clogging, stomping and flatfoot dancing; the Dutch and English square-dancing with the Africans and the Irish. Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021 Overture on harmonica while flatfoot dancing and twirling a rope. Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
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Noun
  • Willis, known for portraying the policeman and sometimes a naval officer in the group, spoke with Morning Edition about the upcoming performance.
    Phil Harrell, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Nathan Howard | Reuters President Joe Biden on Sunday signed the Social Security Fairness Act, bipartisan legislation that clears the way for teachers, firefighters, policeman and other public sector workers who also receive pension income to receive increases in their Social Security benefits.
    Lorie Konish, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The bloodshed came less than three hours after 15-year-old Heath Campbell was shot in the head and a 16-year-old boy was hit in the shoulder about a mile away — on E. 93rd St. near Rutland Road in East Flatbush — just before 3:35 p.m., cops said.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Read Next National 9-year-old boy fatally shot by his stepdad, Wisconsin cops say.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two adults and three kids were sleeping inside when the unknown suspect approached the front door and kicked it before entering, officers said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Inside the condo, officers found the 51-year-old victim in a bedroom suffering from a gunshot wound.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Northern policemen such as Philadelphia constable George Alberti, who actually lived not far from Still, profited by moonlighting as a kidnapper for the plantation economy.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Lindemann has been a constable for three years and served 28 years in the Texas Department of Public Safety.
    Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Oct. 2024

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“Flatfoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatfoot. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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