as in to close
to come near or nearer
belly up to the buffet table and help yourselves
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That translates to an additional $20,000 in sales over the three days from folks who bellied up to the bars while waiting (and waiting and waiting) for their flights.
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Karri Peifer, Axios, 26 July 2024
In 2018, a team posited that the heavily armored animals often went belly up because of bloating as their carcasses floated out to sea.
—Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024
Some of the images are meant to be provocative: In one, a horseshoe crab, bronze and gleaming, lies belly up, stretching its legs toward the sky.
—Oli Turner, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
So, basically, with everyone tiptoeing around Hill’s criminal case, Buddy is just bellying up to the ballot box and saying: Make this a referendum on me.
—Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
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Karri Peifer, Axios, 26 July 2024
In 2018, a team posited that the heavily armored animals often went belly up because of bloating as their carcasses floated out to sea.
—Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024
Some of the images are meant to be provocative: In one, a horseshoe crab, bronze and gleaming, lies belly up, stretching its legs toward the sky.
—Oli Turner, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
So, basically, with everyone tiptoeing around Hill’s criminal case, Buddy is just bellying up to the ballot box and saying: Make this a referendum on me.
—Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
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Virgin Atlantic ceased all flights to Hong Kong — and closed an office there — in 2022, ending the airline’s 30-year presence in the Asian financial hub.Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
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Six encampments have already been closed down, according to the Home for Good website, with nine others projected to be closed by the end of the year.Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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The 39-year-old is in her second year as an assistant professor at the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film, and Television and approaches horror as a fan and academic, defining the genre as filmmaking that elicits uncomfortable, visceral reactions.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2024
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New data released on Oct. 16 shows that filming in L.A. is approaching historically low levels, with the three-month period from July to September seeing the fewest number of shoot days this year.Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
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For Eisenberg, however, the film drew on a lot of personal connections — not just to his character, but to the region.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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Average allocation of legal function workload CLOs seeking to meet expectations and deliver consistently superior service must draw on both internal and external resources, while optimizing their teams’ skills and tools.Richard Punt, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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By the following spring, with the primary nearing its conclusion, Vance’s public image was still largely defined by the attack ads his rivals were running, highlighting his past anti-Trump comments.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Topline Virginia on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up a dispute over whether the state can purge people from its voter rolls right before Election Day, as the high court is likely to face a slew of last-minute voting lawsuits as Election Day nears.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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The practical limitations of CAR-T have dogged the cancer field for a long time now, and researchers have already come up with ideas to get around it.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Here are some of the stocks on came up on Goldman’s screen: Plus-size apparel retailer Torrid , down 42% this year, was one name in the basket.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Belly up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belly%20up. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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