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if she isn't at home, you can usually find her at the local library, her favorite stamping ground
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Key to its legacy is its terrifying ending, which sees Nicholson’s detective J.J. Gittes return to his old stamping ground of Chinatown.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 June 2024
That story began on June 23, 2018, when celebrating members of the Wild Boars soccer team entered Tham Luang, a favorite stamping ground, not realizing that the fast-approaching monsoon season was about to get an early start.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
But e-commerce is for now their main stamping ground.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2021
Greece’s banking sector has been a stamping ground for international investors since the country’s emergence from crippling bailout programs and years of economic turmoil.
—Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
Each has its own strong personality, stamping ground and cat frenemies.
—Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
Once a stamping ground where rugged, able stuntmen such as Cliff made an all-American genre staple, the place is now a decaying gynocracy where hippie chicks laze about all day.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
There’d also be a pit stop in neighboring Harpswell, a stamping ground of hers as a girl.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
Thursday marked his first game at his old stamping grounds.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 June 2024
That story began on June 23, 2018, when celebrating members of the Wild Boars soccer team entered Tham Luang, a favorite stamping ground, not realizing that the fast-approaching monsoon season was about to get an early start.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
But e-commerce is for now their main stamping ground.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2021
Greece’s banking sector has been a stamping ground for international investors since the country’s emergence from crippling bailout programs and years of economic turmoil.
—Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
Each has its own strong personality, stamping ground and cat frenemies.
—Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
Once a stamping ground where rugged, able stuntmen such as Cliff made an all-American genre staple, the place is now a decaying gynocracy where hippie chicks laze about all day.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
There’d also be a pit stop in neighboring Harpswell, a stamping ground of hers as a girl.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
Thursday marked his first game at his old stamping grounds.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
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“Stamping ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stamping%20ground. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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