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Pretty soon, America’s ultimate time killer could be killed itself — or, at the very least, restricted from U.S. borders.—Michael Savio, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024 Even though Simone Biles was sitting out today, Hoda Kotb and Snoop Dogg chatted with the gymnast’s family in what was a network time killer by any other name.—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 July 2024 The time killer of choice, as always with the Cats on a flight, will be poker.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024 The May 4 incident was the third time killer whales (Orcinus orca) have sunk a vessel off the coasts of Portugal and Spain in the past three years.—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023 That’s a time killer.—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2020 The album is a cornucopia of oddball earworms, but look alive at 1:35 into this track, when the quartet unveils a devilishly righteous stop-time killer that turns into a punishing groove once the full band kicks in.—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023 Gary Troutman, a two-time killer who knew Angela from the neighborhood, made sure of that.—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022 Two-time killer Gary Gilmore brought worldwide attention to Utah in 1977, when the Texas native became the first person in nearly a decade to be executed in the United States when he was shot by a firing squad.—Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
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