as in to buckle (down)
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Or one person working at a small company can be wearing multiple hats — doing the books and pitching in to unload trucks — triggering some gaps about retirement benefits when the person with all that knowledge leaves the company.Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
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Dodgers are still in control of their World Series destiny Oct. 18, 2024 When a team lacks reliable starting pitching in the playoffs, such can be the unfavorable choices a manager is left with.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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The designer started to ponder the idea a couple years ago, while digging in vintage archives during a stay in Paris.Sandra Salibian, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
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Tyler specifically digs in about pregnancy as well as the fears of becoming a father.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
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The scholars borrow from critical theory—including a Marxist focus on the alienation of labor and postmodern pessimism—with some going so far as to compare the resorts to slave plantations.Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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During the latter half of that period, according to Marques’s review of British consular reports, more than one-third of all slaving vessels that made landfall in Rio de Janeiro did so under an American flag.Rafael Vilela, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
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On the Tuesday after Labor Day weekend 2019, Scott Jones did his usual morning chore of dropping his eldest kids off at school and returning to his Arizona home office to knuckle down to work.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 June 2024
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The Biden administration appears to be playing at war rather than knuckling down and winning it.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
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Few were laboring under the intention that American buyers are spending big on originals again, mind.Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
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The film was shot in Wolof, Senegal’s lingua franca, which Diop herself labored to understand.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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One of the roadies came out to bang away on the piano, the notes more felt than heard, part of the noise.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
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The manager demonstrated how to use the rock hammers, and then people got to banging away, trying to find opals in the rock.Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
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Shares have already been struggling this year, dropping about 40%.Sean Conlon, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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He's struggled with injuries over the last few seasons, but will now look to contribute on a top contending team.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Apply (oneself).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apply%20%28oneself%29. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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