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as in to interrogate
to put a series of questions to
prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool
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as in to drain
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely
pumped water from the well
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The United States continues to pump record-shattering amounts of oil – more than any country in world history.
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Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
At the same time, the U.S. is pumping unprecedented volumes of crude.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Down a run, the crowd is just pumped to see bats coming alive.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
Mathurin was terrific in the fourth quarter and changed the makeup of the game with his ability to get off shots and pump energy into an otherwise flat Pacers offense.
—Tony East, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
At the same time, the U.S. is pumping unprecedented volumes of crude.
—Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Down a run, the crowd is just pumped to see bats coming alive.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
Mathurin was terrific in the fourth quarter and changed the makeup of the game with his ability to get off shots and pump energy into an otherwise flat Pacers offense.
—Tony East, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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More than 1 million people visit the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden each year to see the hippos bob in and out of clear water, hear gibbons howl above the treetops, smell the elephants covered in dirt.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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The flood submerged their street, transforming trees into islands and leaving cars bobbing in several feet of water.Mackenzie Happe and Zoë Todd, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Available on The Week Bookshop A Thread of Violence Mark O'Connell, 2023 Another book that interrogates the act of writing about crime.The Week UK, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Her winning work, titled Behula and a Thousand Tales (2024), uses photography, prints, text, and sculpture to interrogate the role of women in Bangladesh and beyond.George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Independent of the probable timeline for making repairs to Tropicana Field, it can't be used as an outdoor venue either, because the stadium was not engineered to drain rainwater away from the field.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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But harassment campaigns and lawsuits that drain companies of time, money, resources and trust are much easier and can be just as punitive.Sara Fischer, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Over the next few years, a plague of disorder will descend upon America, and maybe the world, shaking everything loose.David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Next up is examining gene expression during ethanol consumption and seeking patterns in this among animals known to be attracted to alcohol (some beetles and bats, for example).Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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With less nuclear medicine studies examining the heart, critical diagnoses could be delayed.Omer Awan, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Yanking a zipper shut is more likely to break teeth or jerk the slider off the track.Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
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After several seconds, the man jerked up as if on springs, back from the edge of death.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
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Paxton was born into the church and comes across as more explicitly pious and less inherently questioning of her worldview.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Random Voter Purging If you are removed from a voting line to be questioned, repositioned or even prevented from voting by a polling official, keep a cool head and ask questions to find out what’s going on rather than walking away without casting your vote.Rachaell Davis, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Pump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pump. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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