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Recent Examples of jockey
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, when Brooks’ Honda Odyssey minivan jockeyed through traffic to overtake a Crown Victoria driven by Uriel Miller, 26, of Tennessee, police said.
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Mark Price, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Republicans are jockeying over how to deal with a government shutdown deadline that's coming fast — and everything else President Trump wants them to get done.
—Stephen Neukam, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
Would-be successors will begin jockeying for attention in the months ahead, and the 2026 session will likely be consumed by electoral politics.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Several apps are jockeying for the top spot on the Apple App and Google Play stores, with the number one spot currently being occupied, ironically, by Chinese app RedNote after knocking Lemon8, which is also owned by ByteDance, down a peg.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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Mark Price, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Republicans are jockeying over how to deal with a government shutdown deadline that's coming fast — and everything else President Trump wants them to get done.
—Stephen Neukam, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
Would-be successors will begin jockeying for attention in the months ahead, and the 2026 session will likely be consumed by electoral politics.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Several apps are jockeying for the top spot on the Apple App and Google Play stores, with the number one spot currently being occupied, ironically, by Chinese app RedNote after knocking Lemon8, which is also owned by ByteDance, down a peg.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jockey
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The Chromatic is effectively a modern, premium Game Boy Color engineered to elevate the best features of Nintendo’s original while fixing its shortcomings.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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To test that hypothesis, Dr. Jarvis hopes to engineer mice with mutations in NOVA1, FOXP2 and other genes that may have been important in the rise of language.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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That being said, Ancelotti is expected to field Raul Asencio there while Dani Ceballos and Eduardo Camavinga form a double pivot.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Rojas showed good range at third base, moving to his left to field a Kris Bryant grounder and firing to first base for the final out of the first inning.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Players who for years were starved for the chance to play meaningful games on behalf of their country now would be able to face-off for international bragging rights.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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With the ink barely dry on a bombshell deal that hands Amazon MGM Studios creative control over James Bond, Jeff Bezos is already canvassing fans about who should play 007.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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The man was treated at an area hospital for injuries, which were not caused by gunfire.—
Jason Green,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Of course, if a patient is found to have an underlying condition, the priority is treating the condition, which may address the cankers, too. Don’t forget nutrition.—
Matt Fuchs,
TIME,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Jockey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jockey. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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