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as in to touch (on)
to come very close to being
that comment borders on insubordination, and you should be more careful in the future
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as in to join
to be adjacent to
that state borders on three others
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This election calls for voters to select two candidates to join the school board.Alexcia Negrete, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
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Cue the entrance of one Sophia Bush, who joins the cast in the recurring role of Dr. Cass Beckman.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Harris introduced an Opportunity Agenda for Black Men, outlining what her administration would do to support that voting constituency that seemed movable.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, Apple Intelligence with Siri doesn't seem to be fully baked just yet.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor’s adjoining apartment.Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor's adjoining apartment.CBS News, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Images from Taiwan’s official Central News Agency and social media showed ferocious waves slamming into the coast of Taitung county, while parts of neighboring Hualien county were submerged in floodwaters.Eric Cheung, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Police in neighboring Vancouver, Washington, responded to an arson at a ballot box about 30 minutes later.John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the high stakes state of Pennsylvania, the gender and age gap in polling reveals trends that resemble the 2020 election.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The only two exceptions are 2004 and 2020, both razor-thin elections that closely resembled the razor-thin elections that preceded them (2000 and 2016).Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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The measure had been the subject of heated public discussion that touched on the character of the growing city.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The project won multiple development awards – kicking off with the Ibero-American Grant for Film Project Development – and touches on themes of role reversal and resilience.John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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To optimize the duo's playmaking capabilities, the franchise clearly decided to flank them with shooters, as to provide them with a ton of space.Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Another Buffett buddy, James Taylor, eulogized the irreplaceable musician, who died in September 2023, and then moved to the performance stage, flanked by Kenny Chesney and renowned session guitarist/producer Mac McAnally, also a longtime member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
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For about an hour, while the former President was trained at the fry station, police surrounded the restaurant, holding back pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators and shutting down Street Road, an east-west path on William Penn’s seventeenth-century maps which is today redundantly named.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
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More Outside of the matches, the biggest question mark surrounds Ms. Money in the Bank Tiffany Stratton.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Border (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/border%20%28on%29. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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