rushing
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The running back now leads the NFL with 665 rushing yards, a record from a player's first five games with a new team, and the Chiefs visit his former team Seattle next Sunday.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Herbert led the Chargers in rushing with 26 yards and threw for 204 yards on 22-for-37 passing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
“The importance of not rushing girlhood,” Ms. FitzSimons writes, “that liminal phase after the haze of early childhood but before boy-crazy adolescence” was a personal cause for American Girl’s creator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“If people were really genuinely concerned about the stock market right now, they’d be selling and not rushing to buy something else.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
Debris began rushing by: first sticks, then branches, then entire trunks of trees.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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