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Carroll became the first person to coach an NFL game at age 74, and youthful as he is, the game had to sap his spirit a bit.

The increase in muscle could take away his speed, one of his most lethal weapons, or sap his endurance during long rounds.

As it happens, he may get the rate cut he desires, but only because his tariff and immigration policies are sapping America’s economic strength, producing a slump that warrants a reduction.

But rising temperatures can play a more fundamental role by sapping moisture from the soil via evaporation.

But when the Army Corps removed her beloved tree this year, all that remained was the jacaranda — the one that for years had left her car sticky with sap and stunk up the street.