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Jofra Archer bowled with fire to have Tom Latham nick off and Josh Tongue removed Devon Conway with his first ball.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

I can see things going wrong for De Zerbi against his old club, so I am backing Brighton to nick the points here.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

The country stored up 1.26 billion barrels of oil in the nick of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

It built up those reserves just in the nick of time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

“No, Boots! No, no! No jump!” said Gregor, catching her just in the nick of time.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Scott Boland bowled 74 deliveries to Root in the remaining three Tests of that series, conceded 39 runs and dismissed Root four times by consistently probing at that fuller length and finding nicks.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Living “in the heart of elephant country” from 1966-70, Mr. Douglas-Hamilton learned to tell hundreds of elephants apart, largely through the shape of their ears or tears and nicks in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

“Yes, it’ll get nicks, but it’ll still be beautiful.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

“You always get bumps and bruises and nicks and don’t feel great. You just keep going.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

As her fingers tightened on her scabbard, he could see the scars and nicks on her skin shifting over her tendons.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Imagine it like this: It is late in the evening of April 15, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt, the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked his now-bandaged scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Kelly: What, you just nicked another kid's football?!

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

To test the idea further, the researchers created "nicked" DNA, strands that were interrupted at specific points.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

Ben Duckett miscued Starc to mid-on and Zak Crawley edged the same bowler to second slip, either side of Jacob Bethell's Ashes debut yielding one run before he nicked Neser.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Our tires kicked up gravel that nicked my legs as we approached T Wharf.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The Cherries won the reverse fixture in October thanks to a late comeback, and I can see them nicking this one too.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

And, of course, we’ve been in a reciprocal comedy arrangement with Britain — or at least we have been nicking their ideas for shows — for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

All three of his dismissals against pace, including nicking off against Nepal seamer Nandan Yadav, have come against balls clocked between 75-82mph.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Bournemouth will score and they are very capable of nicking a victory here, but Newcastle have momentum and belief and they also have Alexander Isak, who is absolutely flying at the moment.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

The moment he was inside, Harry burst out, “He was nicking Sirius’s stuff!”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling