sacrifice
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Norco was clinging to a 1-0 lead until scoring two runs in the seventh on a Codey Brown sacrifice fly and throwing error.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
She misses him but insists "it's worth the sacrifice."
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
The fruit of that sacrifice was the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
While that was news to most people, including its host, everyone watching the merger of CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, and David Ellison’s Skydance, must have assumed its completion would require some blood sacrifice.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as ‘a nonsensical business’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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