hot pursuit

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Recent Examples of hot pursuit In an interview for the SABR Bio Project, Henley recounted the details of the fateful play: (George) Shuba shot a ball to deep right-center field, and Henley turned in hot pursuit. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 One unusual pet has been returned to its owner after a hot pursuit caught on police camera last month. Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024 Sometimes, the concept of hot pursuit is used to downplay incidental border incursions. Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2014 But whether the United States could invoke hot pursuit to chase militants into Syria is a different question altogether. Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2014 See All Example Sentences for hot pursuit
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Noun
  • To help with the tracking, consider using a spreadsheet or a budgeting app.
    Gabriel Rodríguez, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Beginning with the 2023-24 season, all NBA arenas were equipped with optical tracking technology, which captures player and ball movement in real time.
    Jason Quick, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This typically includes: Electrocardiogram (ECG): an electrical tracing of the heart which may show dangerous heart rhythms or inherited electrical conditions like Long QT Syndrome, Brugada Syndrome or Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In this two-dimensional tracing of the data [above], the surface of the ice and shape of the bedrock are clearly visible.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • But nothing was going to stand in the way of her pursuit of motherhood.
    Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • As a result, your attention is diverted from your growth and innovation wish list, replaced by the relentless pursuit of cost reductions.
    Seamus Smith, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe that could help clean up the hills of uranium-laden tailings from the mines, or deliver higher-paying jobs.
    Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Yellow and orange layers exposed mine tailings deposits in the cutbanks where the river meanders.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In Norway, the show’s following has grown over its five seasons with Season 6 coming.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Cooper interview was the second time in recent months that Cooper has been the guest of a commentator with a huge following on the right.
    Ben Sales, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Major League Baseball is officially back in action with Opening Day 2025 kicking off another exciting chase for the World Series trophy.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Several weeks after the police chase, law enforcement pulled over a vehicle Aheran was riding in and found him with a bag containing a gun, other people’s mail, debit and credit cards in other people’s names, over $1,000 in cash and other contraband, investigators said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025

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