hookup
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The hedge-born man conceived in a hookup under the hawthorn bushes in 17th-century Britain was the direct linguistic ancestor of today’s naked short-sellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
However, the emphasis is less on any ultimate hookup than on how the distinct pressures of the ivory tower can torment and even destroy its inhabitants.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
"Getting the hookup, being proud of the food you bring in and giving meatballs to people. That's our people, and I'm happy with it."
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024
He wrote that the group has done other research, in addition to the analysis of dating and hookup apps.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
The State usually wouldn't bring inmates from Angola to New Orleans for hearings but instead had them view proceedings on a video hookup at the prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
The writing is terrifically funny and also grounded, anecdotes filled with slapstick but no punchlines, befitting a story that includes hookups, weddings, children, a funeral and an unknowable future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
To speed things up, the U.K. recently scrapped its first-come, first-served system for grid hookups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
First, its parcel of land provides easy access to fiber hookups, water, and the Hugoton and Panhandle gas fields, which span parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
Most people alive today carry traces of genes inherited from Neanderthals—the enduring legacy of prehistoric hookups with our extinct cousins.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
Then she starts tearing off the hookups to her senses.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
