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Advertisement The Dodgers-Yankees showdown delivered the largest audience for a five-game series since 2006, when an average of 15.8 million viewers watched the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers.
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Next week’s election will set up another showdown among advocates as three states have initiatives on their ballots regarding school choice.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
The World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees is in full swing, and millions of people in the US and abroad are tuning in nightly watch the showdown.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
After bowing to nearly 15 million viewers, the Astros-Dodgers showdown jumped to 18.94 million viewers in Game 5, before growing to 22.29 million the following night.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Next week’s election will set up another showdown among advocates as three states have initiatives on their ballots regarding school choice.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
The World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees is in full swing, and millions of people in the US and abroad are tuning in nightly watch the showdown.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
After bowing to nearly 15 million viewers, the Astros-Dodgers showdown jumped to 18.94 million viewers in Game 5, before growing to 22.29 million the following night.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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But after Israel responded in a relatively muted way, both countries moved on from the confrontation.Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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Police have not said what the confrontation was about, but according to the documents, Hue allegedly pulled a pistol from his waistband, pointed it at the students and told them to run.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Cowboys’ biggest deliveries were notched during their Week 3 duel with Baltimore, which averaged 27.29 million viewers on Fox, trailing only the previous week’s Bengals-Chiefs broadcast on CBS (27.87 million) for bragging rights as the season’s top linear-TV draw.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Dodgers won the first two in L.A., Game 2 featuring the duel between rookie Bob Welch and Reggie Jackson.Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024
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The movie stars Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in a bitter rivalry during a high school election.Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins whose tour through Poland in honor of their grandmother sparks some serious family rivalry.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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The people who are tired of the war are the people in Ukraine.Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
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The federal deficit could wind up at 6.8% of GDP by the end of 2026, which would be unprecedented for the U.S. outside of wars, severe recession or the recent COVID-19 pandemic.JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
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As other suburban Indiana school board races have become embroiled in culture war battles and heated partisan rhetoric in recent elections, school board races in Hendrick’s County have stayed out of the fray.Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
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And after the chaos Washington descended into following the 2020 election, analysts might be prudent to assume Trump wouldn’t take another loss without an intense battle.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the current era of U.S.-Chinese strategic competition, North Korea’s value to China extends beyond its role as a buffer zone between Chinese and U.S. forces.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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The organising committee investigated and found that Jiang had violated competition rules in the preliminary round because she was helped by her teacher, Wang Runqiu, who was a contestant himself.Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
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This is a talky chamber piece of philosophical face-offs, debate duels and wordy warfare, though the outcomes remain just as harrowing.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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But toward the end of the evening, things picked up in a big way, ultimately leaving us high from a face-off that that was a genuine knockout.Charlie Mason, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
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This is a talky chamber piece of philosophical face-offs, debate duels and wordy warfare, though the outcomes remain just as harrowing.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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The war’s vast front lines could become a sort of laboratory for modern warfare, giving Kim’s troops — and their generals — a chance to study.Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Showdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/showdown. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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