ripper
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“Any good news at all and there are so many out there way off sides to a ripper of a rally,” Detrick said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
With the used pitch suddenly alive, Sajid had Joe Root drag on, enticed Duckett into an edge, then bowled Harry Brook with a ripper.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
The objects there are built on an Alice in Wonderland scale: tomato-shaped pincushions as big as chairs, a gargantuan seam ripper in royal blue, bobbins a giant could use.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
When they opened for Death Cab at the fabled club a year later, they brought up blues ripper Brett Benton to play one of his songs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
When I offered to help, she raised an eyebrow—she had no idea I could sew—but handed me a coat, a diamond choker, a seam ripper, and a needle.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
"You think bodice rippers, contemporary things, fantasy. It covers a broad spectrum. So it's not maybe as niche as you think initially."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
They were accompanied by vocal virtuosos Lucius and blues-rock rippers Judith Hill and Eric Krasno, each fixtures in the local music community trying to rebuild itself in the wake of the Eaton fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The 10-song set of vintage Foos anthems is their finest album in years, the stadium-ready rippers carrying a renewed sense of urgency following Hawkins’ death last year.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
They all blur the lines between women’s and literary-leaning commercial fiction, departing from the fantasy spaces of bodice rippers and misty moors to depict a world that looks a lot more like, well, our own.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
You're three rippers to do this—and I hope you'll have an easy journey.
From Carry On Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson
