drag
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He might not have any offers, but he doesn’t drag the rest of the group down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Around the same time, Vance himself claimed there was “no chance” the war would drag out.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Hopefully we can bring a little 'je ne sais quoi' and reignite the interest in drag," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Analyst David Stanton says the U.S. remains the key drag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Instead, Yamu-nedjeh gathered hundreds of us to push, pull ropes, and drag the sled with the obelisk on it up the small hill to the river.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Parents like John Sr. and Bernadette realize how heavily heroism drags on a person, and the exhaustion of being the first or the only to breathe rare air in exclusive company.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
And nobody’s seen him, but she knows and they’re arguing and the kid comes over, she has a little chair that she drags everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Kerkez passes the ball to Ngumoha before making a run in-behind which drags defenders away from the ball.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Four years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine set off an energy crisis, European countries face new questions about natural gas security as the war in the Middle East drags on.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The session drags on for a torturous eternity that is just another twenty minutes.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
European stock indexes were mixed at the open as U.S.-Iran escalation dragged on travel stocks and energy-intensive industrials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
China’s three largest state-owned airlines posted deeper losses in the first half, dragged by weak domestic pricing and high fuel costs spurred by the Middle East conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
An Australian school teacher mauled by a large shark at a Sydney beach says she fired a "left hook" at the predator before it dragged her underwater.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He has described being dragged face-down underneath the Morgan Super 3 car for about 50 metres.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
I dragged the cot out from the wall to stand under the naked overhead bulb.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Successive heat spells have roasted the continent since May, bringing temperatures of 40C and above -- and dragging drought and devastating wildfires in their wake.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
US tech and chip giants including Nvidia, Intel, Micron, and Broadcom took a battering, dragging the Nasdaq and S&P 500 lower.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I’m dragging him to brunch and trying to get him to golf with me — never happened.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Europe, the summer of 2026 looks like a new normal, with heat waves dragging on productivity and disrupting logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
After what feels like a lifetime of minutes dragging by, she gets up to go finish cleaning the rest of the rooms.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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