buck
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"The buck stopped with UVU leadership and law enforcement," Parkinson said in a statement to the Associated Press.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Back then, depressed share prices gave these serial buyers of their own stock extra bang for the buck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Can Kane buck history and win Ballon d'Or?
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“The buck should stop here, and it should stop now,” they wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Perhaps because they had fallen into that angry silence, they walked quietly enough to come upon One Horn, the magnificent buck deer who had lost half of his antler rack defending his island territory.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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