nailed

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She nailed complex paradiddles and splashed nearly a dozen cymbals with abandon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“They have really nailed that aspect—that you want to pull all these different levers if we want to make an aggregate change that we can really see.”

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

His deep 3-pointer in overtime was a carbon copy of a shot Stephen Curry had once nailed in Oklahoma City to beat the Thunder—except that Wembanyama is over a foot taller than Curry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Now that Arsenal looked nailed on to win the league, our entire season is about whether Spurs go down.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The game for the day was to sail the raft out to a marker nailed several hundred yards from shore, somewhere between the two beaches.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield