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“Rowing is good for the stomach also,” Dubey says with a nod and a pat of his belly.

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With a nod to the Maverick, the university mascot, students were grouped into small pods called “mavilies.”

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Beal was named an all-star starter for the first time in his career Thursday, becoming the first Wizards player to earn a starting nod since John Wall in 2015.

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The name is a nod to Laughlin’s uniform number during his playing days with the Capitals from 1982 to 1988.

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The other big thing is that there are all of these nods to things that feel like pandemic life — reaching out for someone’s touch, and “sin city is cold and empty.”

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The single-shot vaccine would become the third on the market if it gets a regulatory nod.

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The series also picked up a nod for out actress Cynthia Nixon in the Supporting Actress category.

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He spent the past four seasons with the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, earning all-star nods in the past two years, before he finally made the Capitals’ roster this season.

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Fellow sophomore center Timothy Ighoefe got the nod in his place.

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If Mephisto doesn’t actually show in WandaVision, it’s likely at least that this line is dropped as a nod to Marvel diehards.

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