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kickoff

noun as in opening

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To understand just how remarkable Saturday’s game became, as it approached midnight in State College, Pa., you first have to understand just how dull it was just after kickoff some four hours earlier.

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Together, the two artists made the episode feel like more than a comedy kickoff — it was a cultural statement.

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Isaac Guerendo appeared to fumble on the ensuing kickoff, but officials ruled that he had been stopped before he lost the ball.

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USC coach Lincoln Riley declined to provide an update on Lane or Paige on Tuesday and instead referred reporters to the Big Ten’s availability report, which is released two hours before kickoff every Saturday.

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She and other students are feeling the absence of Hispanic Heritage Month events, chatter about the LGBTQ+ center’s rainbow run and the now-closed Multicultural Center’s annual kickoff that would have otherwise happened.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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