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Unless it’s a clean sweep by the Democrats, none of this will happen.
WHAT WALL STREET NEEDS FROM THE 2020 ELECTIONBERNHARD WARNERSEPTEMBER 30, 2020FORTUNEThe chytrid pandemic was selecting frogs based on their microbes—a selective sweep in which amphibians harboring one microbial community survived above all others.
WHEN EVOLUTION IS INFECTIOUS - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENMOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFFSEPTEMBER 30, 2020NAUTILUSThis gravel handlebar keeps the controls in the same neutral position as a standard road handlebar and creates sweep below the controls for a wider, more confident hand position when riding in the drops.
NEW GRAVEL BIKE ACCESSORIES FOR A SMOOTHER RIDEJOSH PATTERSONSEPTEMBER 28, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEThere’s also no evidence that a single sweep of the virus through the population would lead to herd immunity, says Sten Vermund, dean of the Yale School of Public Health.
HERD IMMUNITY ALONE WON’T STOP COVID-19. HERE’S WHY.KATE BAGGALEYSEPTEMBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEAlthough several players have gotten close, and several others seem like they’ve played for every single team in a league, there are surprisingly few who have made a clean sweep of a given division.
THE SUMMER OF PLAYOFFSSARAH SHACHATAUGUST 18, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThis season, the Canes truly belong, as they proved with a comprehensive sweep of the New York Rangers in the opening round of the expanded playoffs.
CAN THE HURRICANES WIN THE STANLEY CUP WITH MEDIOCRE GOALTENDING?TERRENCE DOYLEAUGUST 11, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTTo talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYHe walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThenceforth, it ebbed, though it raged madly for a while in the effort to sweep away the obstruction.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYAnd then if the ghost of a chimney-sweep were to appear—and why not the spirit of a sweep as well as anybody else?
SECOND EDITION OF A DISCOVERY CONCERNING GHOSTSGEORGE CRUIKSHANKWORDS RELATED TO SWEEP
- accommodation
- apprehension
- appropriation
- bag
- booby trap
- bust
- captivity
- capture
- collar
- commitment
- confinement
- constraint
- crimp
- detention
- drop
- fall
- gaff
- glom
- grab
- heat
- hook
- imprisonment
- incarceration
- mitt
- nab
- nail
- nick
- nip
- pick up
- pickle
- pinch
- preventive custody
- protective custody
- pull
- pull in
- restraining
- run in
- snare
- sweep
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