swept

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Swept up at the age of 6 in the national intoxication with truth-telling, young Misha devoured glasnost’s flagship weekly, Ogonyok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Swept from the congregation are the hereditary peers who, in a bustle of coronets and ermine, crowded into the Abbey last time in 1953.

From BBC • May 5, 2023

Swept an Eastern Canada road trip to Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal for only the second time in Avalanche history to move within three points of lead in Central Division they once trailed by 14.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

Swept up in Arizona’s strong market for new housing, the plans to convert the former fairway into a multifamily development called Avance, with 394 homes, a community pool and a health center, are nearing completion.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

Swept up in an outpouring of patriotic fervor, young men flocked to recruiting stations all over Europe.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman