Some poor families trudged from one village to another, falling victim to violence, hunger and cold.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Sep. 2026
And, like any good party, someone had a notion that the others loved — and so the players trudged back onto the field to have a team photo taken in front of the Crown Vision board still displaying a congratulatory message to the White Sox.
Video footage also showed people being trampled and hit with batons as officers traveled on horseback.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Oct. 2026
Philbrick, a seasoned and popular chronicler of the American past, is equally concerned with those who got trampled by the rush as with those who rode it to astonishing heights of wealth and influence.
This explains why the isotopes are so well mixed rather than clumped, and also tells us that Bennu's parent probably formed not long after Jupiter did.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
27 Sep. 2026
The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
As a result, the Great Lawn had to be shut down two months ealier for repairs and resodding after tens of thousands of concertgoers stomped it into a muddy mess.
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Lincoln Anderson,
New York Daily News,
23 Sep. 2026
Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
The end result, Dallas Wilson wandered into the end zone, and the lead was 17.
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Noah White,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2026
Inside, a photo call sat to one side while the crowd wandered among jewelry vitrines with Champagne, white Negronis and white cosmos in hand, taking in the diamonds.
Just three days after surgery to remove one of his kidneys, Miller slowly strolled right in — cane in hand — and took a seat with Council, firing off jokes without missing a beat.
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Oct. 2026
Fresh off a meeting, Zach Harrison strolled through the Falcons’ locker room and felt his phone buzz.
Ocasio-Cortez has stumped in upstate New York, while Ossoff has joined forces with gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms and other Democrats running for office in the Peach State.
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Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Oct. 2026
Vance stumped in Florida, putting the Republican Party's highest-ranking officials in areas where GOP candidates once expected to have glide paths to victory but are now facing tougher races.
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