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But after giving up a score, running back Derrick Henry, who is typically one of the NFL’s best and most reliable ball-carriers, coughed up a late fumble that led to another Buffalo touchdown.

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Advocates say one hunger striker was taken out on a stretcher after coughing up blood the night before.

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All that, however, would be washed away with that loose ball in the end zone, the second fumble Illinois had coughed up that close to the end zone.

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The Rangers fans would cough up a lot more than that for an audience with the man, for a chance to air their views by way of a venting of the spleen.

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For the first time in what felt like several weeks, a scuffling bullpen finally didn’t cough up a late, narrow lead.

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