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This should be a really good match and I think Paraguay will nick the win they need late on.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 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

A construction vehicle toppling, with its driver escaping a life-changing accident by jumping out just in the nick of time as Disney himself talks up how there have been very few accidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Just then, a huge keeplock officer from B-block named Phelan appeared—in the nick of time, as far as I was concerned, for Massey was surprisingly powerful.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Same goes for noting any damage, like nicks or scratches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

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

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

The scrapes and nicks as his head was shaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

I saw no nicks or breaks in the door frames, no scratches on die locks.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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

He muscled a brutal straight six over long-on off while hitting spinner Mohammad Nawaz for 17 in the sixth, before nudging singles after Banton nicked off to Usman Tariq.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 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

Phonograph records, some broken, some only nicked, were strewn about.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

Instead this is the type of game where they will go and grind out a 'one-niller', by nicking a set-piece goal.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

Harry Wilson has been excellent for them this season, but while I don't see them losing this, I don't see them nicking it either.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

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 wind’s pummeling me, the salty spray nicking my hot face, the ocean below drumming as ferociously in my head as out of it.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson