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as in to relate
to form a close personal relationship
we just clicked from the moment we met
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as in to go
to turn out as planned or desired
sometimes an idea simply clicks
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
With a popgun offence, the defensive seams showing and a work rate that has clicked in and out all season, the club determined that something had to be done.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
The pieces of its plot are often left floating in mid-air until their function clicks into place, via either explanation or overt symbolism.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2025
With a popgun offence, the defensive seams showing and a work rate that has clicked in and out all season, the club determined that something had to be done.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
The pieces of its plot are often left floating in mid-air until their function clicks into place, via either explanation or overt symbolism.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
How to sign up To sign up for this one-week newsletter series, click here and enter your email address.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
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If that snood suddenly shortens, your gobbler has gone from relaxed to alert, and the jig might be up.—
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Humans generate memories during their very first months of life, but where do those memories go?—
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And then there’s that — art history, her forebears, with whom these paintings are communing.—
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24 Feb. 2025
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The premise of The Message would appear to be even more callous: this ragtag trio roam the countryside with a little girl who can commune with animals, alive or dead.—
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Rosé’s album may be succeeding in part because Blackpink fans are so excited this week.—
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Sanchez, who starts March 31, succeeds interim executive director Janice Dawe.—
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After this, everyone met in the paddock, were instructors and participants brought the three horses, Lulu, Churro, and Warrior, to groom them and start bonding with them, by taking the time to understand each other.—
Maïna Durafour,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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That is also the ideal time-frame to bond with new owners.—
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