as in to eke out
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The Dow ended the day down about 1%, but the Nasdaq eked out a small gain.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
7 Apr. 2025 -
The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a 0.1% gain, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.5%. Technology stocks, which had been the heaviest weights on the market in the early going, bounced back to offset a big share of the declines elsewhere in the S&P 500.—
Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Mike Pavlik, whose family lived across the alley behind ours and who was the leadoff batter on our softball team, squeezed my arm.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Consumer confidence has taken a nosedive in 2025 as Americans grow more concerned that inflation could spike again, and tariffs will squeeze their wallets.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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And seriously, shouldn't surviving that nightmare initial Vula tribe designation be worth a cool million bucks?—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The attorneys also debated what cell phone activity from Mortensen and the other surviving roommate, Bethany Funke, in the hours around the murders should come in at trial.—
Jean Casarez,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Whether through design, real estate, or social initiatives, Yemane’s businesses are all about impact, helping people build wealth, communities, and lasting relationships.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Officials first broke ground on the site in 2023, but the project fell to a standstill amid lasting COVID-19 pandemic delays and parties’ struggle to finalize a development plan as the size and scope of the project continued to change.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Brazilian pundits have wrung their hands about the lack of connection between the national team and the public for years, maybe even decades.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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The tension between the desire to make something outside the self and the inability to fulfill that desire coils inside them, wringing out their psyches.—
Audrey Wollen,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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No ordinary citizen, and certainly no federal judge, can afford naïveté in the face of this Administration’s lawless behavior.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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With Merrill already out and not yet swinging a bat or doing anything explosive, the Padres cannot afford much worse at the position.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The 2009 Tiger Woods cheating scandal The scandal, which broke in 2009, revealed that Woods had been carrying on multiple affairs, including with Uchitel, while married to his then-wife Elin Nordegren.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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Following the passing of Alabama bandmember Jeff Cook in November 2022, Owen and Gentry carry on Alabama’s mission of bringing the group’s music to fans.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
27 Mar. 2025
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Because tariffs are, effectively, a tax on U.S. businesses that rely on foreign goods to operate, the argument goes, the President cannot wrest this power from Congress.—
Cristian Farias,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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He’s tried to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, targeted political opponents for speech, had people flown to a foreign prison without trial, ignored court orders and generally taken it upon himself to test the limits of our constitutional order.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Scrape (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrape%20%28out%29. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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