as in feat
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
performs mental stunts, such as pronouncing words backwards as soon as you say them
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as in to halt
to hold back the normal growth of
unfortunately, an unusually dry summer seems to have permanently stunted the tree
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Recent Examples of stunt
Kate Hogan, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Erskine trained for several months to feel confident in the physicality of playing Jane and performing stunts.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Whether the publicity of his appearance will fuel or stunt that sentiment remains to be seen, according to Camacho.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Once that show — which required the actor to perform challenging underwater stunts and learn how to dive — was canceled, he was immediately offered a host of roles, including parts on Lassie and The Young Pioneers.
—Kate Hogan, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Erskine trained for several months to feel confident in the physicality of playing Jane and performing stunts.
—Matt Minton, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
Studios continue to bet that auteurs who make low-budget, high-quality work can figure out how to harness hundreds of VFX artists, designers and stunt people to epic effect.
—Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Whether the publicity of his appearance will fuel or stunt that sentiment remains to be seen, according to Camacho.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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However, here’s a handful of the feats fêted by the next-gen space during 2024, organized by stage.Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 30 Dec. 2024
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Leave it to Garcia to continue to manage amazing feats with his music, even almost 30 years following his passing.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Mitsubishi Mirage Mitsubishi previously announced plans to halt production for the Mirage, a compact hatchback, for the U.S. market late this year.Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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The figure falls short of filming in the region when the industry was halted by strikes from actors and writers.Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
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Officials say Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok's U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread or suppress information.HALELUYA HADERO AND MICHELLE L. PRICE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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But that arsenal simply does not include suppressing the speech of Americans because other Americans may be persuaded.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2024
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Message attachments will be removed, web pages will not display as normal, some calls will be blocked, some photo albums will be unavailable, some wireless connections will be disabled, and some accessories will stop working.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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As a way to stop the masses from tearing their outfits apart, brides started tossing their garters into the crowd.Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
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Researchers came to those conclusions by examining an apnea-hypopnea index, or AHI, which records the number of times per hour a person’s breathing shows a restricted or completely blocked airway.Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
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Naloxone works by pushing the fentanyl molecules off the brain’s opioid receptors and then blocking any further fentanyl from attaching to the receptors.Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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The Yankees’ decision to go with Goldschmidt on a one-year contract is not without risk given his age and diminishing skills.Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The district is set to ask the Metro Council for use of $12 million surplus funds to partially offset the diminishing pandemic money.Maria Leontaras, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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However, analysts estimate the SSA will no longer be able to give out full payments to recipients as early as 2034 due to a rising number of retirees and a shrinking number of workers.Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, catering and hospitality industry activity shrank.Dave Smith, Fortune Asia, 31 Dec. 2024
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But Musk scored victories by launching and catching a SpaceX rocket and implanting the first Neuralink chip into a paralyzed patient’s brain.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Dec. 2024
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Unlike a traditional paraglider, where pilots must launch from a cliff or hillside and catch columns of rising warm air to ascend, the motor and propeller allow pilots to take off from open, flat ground—no hills or cliffs required.Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Stunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stunt. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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