sacrifice
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But aside from the combat experience, why did North Korea sacrifice so many of its best troops in a foreign war?
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"If it doesn't turn out as expected then I think the sacrifice of this village would be quite unfortunate."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Kazan doesn’t sacrifice much of the character’s darkness, but rather enables Pugh, an actress who ably navigates purity and corruption, to play with both closer to the surface than usual.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
And after Ivan Herrera moved Báez to third via a groundout, Alec Burleson tied the score at five with a sacrifice fly to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Over and over, I had seen the truth on the washing table—this goldene medina demanded you to sacrifice your body.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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And they’ll learn from their “cadre” leaders, former special forces operators, about the sacrifices first responders made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Part photo album, part teen bedroom, part house party, part altar and part art gallery, “East of the River” never sacrifices style to content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But to do this, it sacrifices the straight lines that made the Mercator projection perfect for navigating with - and it cannot be used for measuring the true distance between different places.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
These financial sacrifices and hard work helped propel Charles to homeownership.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Now, after the enormous sacrifices American fighters had made, Truman felt he could not back down from that demand.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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“We sacrificed vacations, but in the end, we have a home that’s ours.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Koizumi left the shrine without responding to reporters' questions, but he later said on Instagram that he visited to "offer his sincere condolences to the heroic spirits who sacrificed their precious lives for the nation."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
"He really sacrificed for the collective good. This is very important in my squad. In my opinion he played a great World Cup."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Priests used this odd object, divided into zones inscribed with the name of a god, as a teaching tool: In a sacrificed animal, departures from the liver’s usual features were viewed as messages from deities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
I feared for my exams, and to top it all, it often happened that when I sacrificed precious time I could have spent on the farm, the teachers didn’t even come.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Amodei also said that any action to rein in AI should be done "without sacrificing commercial advantage".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
All villains and warriors have an Achilles’ heel, and for female roles in particular, it’s usually sacrificing themselves to protect their family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Accessing the internet without authorization, it created 1,200 agents that communicated through an unsanctioned message board, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and sacrificing some of its own kind to deceive its human masters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
And passengers on United Flight 93 fought back and forced the plane they were on to crash in a field in the middle of Pennsylvania, sacrificing themselves in the hopes of saving others.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“If not, Merriweather might be sacrificing herself for nothing! We have to get out of here, and now, Phillip. Tell him, May.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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