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Trailing by six, with 5:06 remaining in the game, Mosley took the snap in the wildcat formation and swerved his way into the end zone for a touchdown.

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According to an eyewitness, Prefontaine was driving downhill on a two-lane road when he swerved to avoid another car, slammed against an embankment and flipped his vehicle.

Bob Webb, 74, a chief operating officer at a Pittsburgh law firm, lives near the trail and ticked off its hills and swerves until his brother from Maryland interrupted.

Each arrival, in its own way, marked a sharp swerve in the fortunes of a grief-bludgeoned Iraqi family that has spent the past 15 years darting around Europe in a state of legal limbo.

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She is a supremely balanced runner with a galloping stride, a silken swerve and the daring to put them to use on the biggest stage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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