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Recent Examples of walkover
Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In New York, critics of Israel say 12% of voters cast blank ballots in a similar protest during Tuesday’s primary that Biden otherwise won in a walkover.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
The first stakes race, the Knicks Go, is at 12:04 p.m. At 6:16 p.m. the walkover for the derby horses from the barns to paddock starts.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
The first woman to reach the quarters was No. 9 Maria Sakkari of Greece, who advanced because of a walkover from No. 25 Anna Kalinskaya of Russia, who withdrew with a thigh injury.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
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Novak Djokovic earned a walkover in the other men’s quarterfinal Wednesday when Alex de Minaur of Australia withdrew with a hip injury.
—Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In New York, critics of Israel say 12% of voters cast blank ballots in a similar protest during Tuesday’s primary that Biden otherwise won in a walkover.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
The first stakes race, the Knicks Go, is at 12:04 p.m. At 6:16 p.m. the walkover for the derby horses from the barns to paddock starts.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
The first woman to reach the quarters was No. 9 Maria Sakkari of Greece, who advanced because of a walkover from No. 25 Anna Kalinskaya of Russia, who withdrew with a thigh injury.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for walkover
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Both comic and series have suffered a similar fate — being buried in a landslide of Too Much Stuff — and both are clever little delights that deserve to be remembered.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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When Maduro refused to concede defeat, the opposition demonstrated impressive vigilance and organization, presenting copies of the official tallies from over 80 percent of the country’s polling stations to demonstrate that their candidate, Edmundo González, had won in a landslide.Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Also at stake is control of Congress, as a sweep from either the Republicans and Democrats could mean a drastic overhaul of tax and spending policies that could affect corporations and how investors invest going forward.Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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Topline Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a dead-heat race for the White House, according to polls of the national electorate and every battleground state—a scenario that could lead to a sweep for either candidate if polling errors from previous elections repeat.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In their most recent game, a blowout loss to the Knicks, Warriors castoff Ryan Rollins played 12 minutes.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The Rebels turned in a dominant defensive performance against Carson Beck and the Bulldogs a week after Jaxson Dart set school passing records in a blowout of Arkansas.Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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This fun Christmas crashing romp will either end in disaster or two happily-ever-afters!EW.com, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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More than 20 years after making her screen debut in Camp, a beloved romp about the universal experience of being a theater kid, Anna Kendrick is unpacking the sexism of Hollywood through the true-crime genre with her directorial debut.Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
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Next week: Mountain Vista vs. Fairview, TBA No. 7 Fairview beat No. 10 Chatfield, 42-15: Sophomore QB Ki Ellison threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and Fairview (11-0) claimed its first playoff victory in five years to stay unbeaten on the season.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
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That was good for a 1.5 second victory, and also automatic All-American honors.Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
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The philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a father of German nationalism, even accused Europeans of deliberately keeping German lands fragmented—the better to enlist German valor for their own conquests.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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These symbols further connect the artifact to Zoroastrianism, the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
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Donald Trump is suffering an historic descent in the campaign’s final days, an ongoing freefall that’s turning what looked like a walkaway for the former president into what’s most likely a Kamala Harris victory.Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
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Industry representatives have said there should be a distinction between walkaway deaths at those different types of facilities, but the Post investigation found that state investigators issue violations for failures in both types of settings after fatal wandering deaths.Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
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“Walkover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walkover. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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