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His two drop-goals, deflating New Zealand's lead just before half-time, changed the complexion of the contest.

He’d deflate them and “beat them up pretty good” to work in the leather.

“It’s been five months, almost half a year since all of this started,” Nicholas said, a bit deflated at the pace of human bureaucracy.

The politically deflated might also consider World War II — the subject of Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy — the second volume of which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history.

In a 6-1 loss to the Blue Jays that gave Toronto a 3-2 lead in this series, the Dodgers showed a different, deflating, and yet all too familiar identity at the plate.