punt
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Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down the Broadview Six dismissal and the Supreme Court’s surprising punt in a major death penalty case.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
Convincing the city's many bars and clubs to take a punt on a new festival was the next hurdle.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Maye had failed to get the Patriots offense moving throughout, as New England was forced to punt away eight of its first nine possessions.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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