catch
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A 12-yard touchdown pass to Olson and the one-point catch by Vanderweerd made it 27-6.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Senne Lammens: Alive to Palmer's attempt to catch him out with a quickly taken free-kick.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The catch is that effective finance costs can reach 2,000%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It marks them as a priority for targeted surveys that go looking rather than waiting for the next accidental catch.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
To catch it, you must be part of the 5 percent of the population without immunity, and you must be in prolonged physical contact with someone who is sick.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“If you fail to tell them and your house catches fire, you’ll be in a very ugly situation.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
His counterpart, Texas State commit Luke Frith, finished with four catches for 48 yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Nacua, the NFL receptions leader in 2025, has 37 catches for 417 yards and a touchdown, and he also has rushed for a touchdown this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the opening match, against Pakistan, dropped catches and poor strokes left them well beaten in a contest they could have won.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“He says he’ll take us to Abuelita’s house. He knows the way. We should just wait a little while, while he catches his breath.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
On Thursday night against Gahr, Smith had a 78-yard punt return for a touchdown and caught touchdown passes of 31 and five yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
In 2017, reporters at the Washington Post caught him trying to sell them a false story.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Oleshky, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, was captured by the Russian military in 2022, and had been caught in intense fighting between the two sides that left residents starving and unable to escape.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Tech stocks in late October caught the cold that for months has been a drag on the corporate bond market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The question obviously caught Anna May off guard.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
As this followed a similarly challenging final year for Mercedes, it inevitably led to questions about his future, whether age was catching up with him.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
But it faces three threats: rivals that are catching up, prices that are collapsing, and bills that keep climbing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, its shareholder payouts are catching up with GE Vernova.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"I think it's in the right hands," declared James B back at the castle, now colder than ever in terms of catching a traitor.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Why, Grandpa, how in the world am I going to do that? I don’t know anything about catching monkeys. I’ve caught coons and possums and skunks and everything else, but not monkeys.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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