as in to fixate (on or upon)
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The judge also reasoned that Ciulla-Hall has not established a likelihood the NCAA and its member schools violated antitrust law by denying his eligibility.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
8 Feb. 2025 -
So the team reasoned that Zipf’s law of frequency might appear not just in humans but also anywhere else sequential vocal signals are culturally learned (transmitted from one individual to another).—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2025
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Police suspect Richard to be responsible, and no one believes his story except Karen – a fellow teenage outsider.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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The family is believed to have been living out of their vehicle for two to three months and parking at various casinos in Detroit, according to interim Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The tour itself starts on April 19 in Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium and will conclude the North American run in Northwest Stadium in Washington, D.C. on June 18.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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Simultaneously, New York Fashion Week concluded with the Sergio Hudson Fall/Winter 2025 Fashion Show, where Keke Palmer turned heads in a cream ensemble, embodying leadership and authority.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
10 Feb. 2025
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The design fluency test had proved to be a good marker of intelligence on the soccer field in previous studies, with higher scores indicating players who had superior skills in developing strategy and analyzing the play around them.—
Christiane Gelitz,
Scientific American,
7 Feb. 2025
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This article was generated by the Kansas City Star Bot, artificial intelligence software that analyzes structured information from TomTom and applies it to templates created by journalists in the newsroom.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Speculate (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speculate%20%28about%29. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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