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skipping



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absenteeism
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This is reflected in his campaign’s perhaps oversimplified yard signs, the majority of which carry only two words “Sununu, Senator,” prompting plenty of residents to wonder if he’s deliberately skipping listing his first name.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

Others have also pointed to a cultural shift with more people skipping clubs for sober social events.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Except when the moment arrived, she inexplicably dodged it, skipping the song’s first chorus and soft-pedaling the second — an anticlimax for the ages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

In a few seconds the CrossWave had squirted to its top speed of 55 mph and was skipping across the gentle swells in a blaring, brutalizing ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I was so tired by that time that I accidentally turned two pages at once, skipping from page seventeen to page twenty.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien


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