line up

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Recent Examples of line up And fittingly for the event's first time filming in Nashville, the performer line up is a who's who of country music heavy hitters, including Jelly Roll, the Brothers Osborne, Jon Pardi and Dan + Shay. Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Xena was kind of born out of that, and the universe lined up perfectly for it. Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025 During 1-on-1 drills, Morris lined up against London, looking to press the wideout as a faux defensive back. Hailey Hurst, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025 With a slate of flood relief bills lined up behind a controversial proposal to redraw congressional districts to shift five seats to Republican from Democrat, Burrows railed against the Democrats who left the state more than a week ago to shut down a vote on the plan. Karen Brooks Harper The Dallas Morning News, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for line up
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  • Small enough to easily fit beneath the airplane seat in front of you, this lightweight laptop backpack is intentionally designed with three roomy pockets to keep your belongings organized and accessible, effectively streamlining the TSA process.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This effort emerged from the activism on college campuses that produced the creation of groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was formed in 1960 and was known for organizing sit-ins and the Freedom Summer voter outreach project in 1964.
    Time, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • In the last week alone, Thomas has registered more triple doubles than 1,127 of those players logged in their careers.
    Shane Young, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The vehicle did not have a front license plate, which was not required in Pennsylvania, where it was registered at the time.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • The research division of The Economist Group scored 173 cities based on 30 key indicators that were grouped into five categories: stability, health care, education, infrastructure, and culture and environment.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Regaining Unconsciousness, her first collection in a dozen years, feels like an archival boxset, with over a hundred poems grouped into eleven sections with the impressionistic, welcoming vibe of playlists.
    Christopher Spaide August 1, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
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  • The plan aligns with the United States' goal of returning astronauts to the moon, especially as China and Russia also aim to use nuclear power on the moon by the end of the decade.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Archaeologists say the tools align with the material culture of Canaan during the time of Abraham – and show how sophisticated the industry was.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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  • The California New Car Dealers Association released its own second-quarter figures that largely paralleled the energy commission’s numbers and percentages.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
  • This relationship parallels the Internet’s layered architecture, where protocols like TCP/IP handle transport while DNS enables service discovery.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Verb
  • Attorneys for Bedrock Healthcare argue the court's decision to order the nursing homes into receivership was hasty and unnecessary.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Today’s daily brief features the Texas governor ordering the arrest and expulsion of fleeing lawmakers, a video on the NYT weaponizing a sick toddler amid the starvation crisis in Gaza, and Israel is considering a plan to expand the war in Gaza.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Netflix still holds bragging rights for the all-time nomination record with 160 nods in 2020, and shares the record for most wins in a single year — 44 victories in 2021, matching CBS’ 1974 tally.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Even the rules are changing, with sets played to four games instead of six until Wednesday’s final, no-Ad scoring, and match tiebreakers instead of a third set.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As a fixer, Miguel has arranged interviews with El Mayo’s inner circle.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Interested buyers, their representatives or brokers can arrange for special tours.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025

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