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If a team press immediately, Liverpool have been willing to skip short build-up play and go long from keepers Alisson or Giorgi Mamardashvili early.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
A few days later, DeVaux said that Golden Tempo would skip the Preakness and await the Belmont Stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Do you think we’ll be able to skip this race in next week’s edition?
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Skubal held the Cubs at bay for one more batter by getting Michael Busch to skip a groundball to second baseman Tommy Edman, playing on the edge of the infield grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Which means I have to skip breakfast and go to the lobby of the Department of Magical Science to wait for her.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
When was the last time you skipped rope?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It is a fast, tireless, unflinching critic that will tell you your best evidence is thinner than you think and hand you the objection you skipped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
When the time came to get an education, he skipped College Station for stints in New Haven and Cambridge.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
A picture of the nest was shared by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, external, who said: "Thousands of new colleagues moved in without permission, skipped recruitment entirely and ignored the office hot-desking policy."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“But don’t say anything to my mom, OK? It’s not a big deal that I skipped an optional practice, but she’ll make it one.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
I highly recommend skipping Google, skipping ChatGPT, and going straight to INeedAnA.com.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Mark Russell, chief executive of The Children's Society, said that parents were "going into debt over the summer holidays" and "skipping meals".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I’m totally tickled. I’ve just been skipping up and down the street. It’s so delightful,” says the New Yorker, who was nominated for playing immortal island founder Richard Warren the day after his 50th birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
One analyst raised his rating to Buy from Sell, skipping Hold altogether.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Then she heads for our tiny kitchen, skipping in her lopsided way.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
