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Perhaps that will be what Bradley and defensive coordinator Robert Saleh concentrate on this offseason — figuring out blitz packages that mesh with their defensive system.—
Matt Barrows,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Told over six episodes, the gripping limited series starring Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons and Robert De Niro meshes fact with fiction to tell this captivating and frightening life-like story about terrorism, truth, control and oversight.—
Stacy Lambe,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Horn was abducted with his brother, who is not on the list of hostages expected to be released in the ceasefire’s first phase.—
Jalal Bwaitel,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
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The three were abducted by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz in the terror group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel that sparked the war in Gaza now under ceasefire.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025
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According to the outlets, after killing David and Gladys Larke, Sigmon kidnapped his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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His conviction included enhancements for kidnapping multiple victims and using a knife in the crimes, prosecutors said.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Feb. 2025
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Nikola was a hot startup and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scandal and its founder was convicted in 2022 for misleading investors about the Arizona company's technology.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2025
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As Musk attempts a $97.4 billion hostile takeover of Altman’s OpenAI, the pair are following the same bros-to-foes arc — co-founders of OpenAI back in 2015 when Altman was a 20-something entrepreneur (like a young Kendrick opening for Drake) who soon became enmeshed in a rift.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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In the initial announcement about the plan to vacate the convictions of felons entrapped by crack-selling stings in Broward County, the convicts were told not to contact the State Attorney's Office or the Broward Sheriff's Office.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2025
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His playbook of operations was called the Trout Memo – after the fly-fishing technique designed to entrap trout.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Watch baseball, football, or any team sport: Players support each other and strengthen their bonds by interacting with each other in high fives, hands clasping or shaking, fists bumping, pats on the head or back—and even hugs.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 June 2024
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But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, fists jackhammering from powerful shoulders, sometimes fracturing bones, tearing tissue and rattling brains.—
David Waldstein,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2023
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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