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Recent Examples of oversetThat led to the Saints to overset the edge or overrun the ball carrier, creating huge cutback lanes.—Lance Reisland, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022 McGovern will often overset shaded defensive linemen, which opens up the inside move for defenders.—John Owning, Dallas News, 1 June 2020 Gallimore also flashes an effective spin move to take advantage of offensive linemen who overset to defend his upfield burst.—John Owning, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2020 The edge rush can also set up a counter inside move if the tackle continues to overset – as Curry showed here.—Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
Grocery shoppers may be noticing the price gap narrow or even invert, in some cases making specialty eggs cheaper than conventional ones.
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Alexandra Byrne,
NBC News,
5 Mar. 2025
But the Heartland rightly shows us that the metaphor is inverted—those on the margins of economic opportunity represent the vast middle, while coastal tech hubs, through their concentrated wealth, are in the minority and yet firmly in power.
Phillips talked to her students about an excerpt of Plato’s Symposium, in which—at the beginning of time—Zeus splits each human in two in order to foil their plan to overthrow the gods.
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Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
Reuters — Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation.
Francis Marmolejos, 37, of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, was among the six friends aboard a 30-foot fishing boat that capsized in Ambrose Channel Sunday after beginning to take on water near Breezy Point.
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Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
The Coast Guard was working with New York City’s Fire and Police Departments to understand what caused the boat to capsize.
In 2001, after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center upended American travel, layoffs rippled through the airline industry.
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Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
7 Mar. 2025
The series is not afraid to upend expectations, including letting justice languish where other crime shows would wind their way toward a more ethically satisfying conclusion.
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