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This game began, appropriately enough, with Angela Dugalic blocking Aston Judd’s shot and then glaring at her as the Longhorn lay in a heap.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Metcalfe said she was convinced the answers police needed lay in the Harlow community.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Vance made it clear that the administration’s interests lay in the country’s vast oil reserves.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
It lay in a strip from the foothills of the Ozark Mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
