tear
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On Wednesday, government minister Jitendra Singh said in parliament that no "bullets" were fired, external and only tear gas was used.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Eyes tear up when unrequited love leads to isolation or forbidden love leads to death.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Business investment, meanwhile, has been on a tear, largely due to massive spending on computer servers, memory and chips used to support artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
She folded the paper and tried to tear it as neatly as possible when she wasn’t allowed scissors to make a logo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Working together, Caesar and Perkins tear one man away, then the other.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Measure in the flour, then add salt, yeast and diastatic malt to the bowl, pressing tare after each addition.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
As you cook the salmon and vegetables, whether it’s on a cast-iron griddle or a hot grill, stay close so you can keep turning the skewers and brushing them with your homemade tare.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
He also has countless types of tare, the seasoning bases for ramen, none of which Yoo will discuss because these secret flavoring agents do most of the heavy lifting at noodle shops.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2020
Each bag includes the tare weight to ensure you pay only for what you are buying.
From Slate ● May 7, 2018
Until Jade Dragon is no longer lonely and is reunited with at least one of her children, Fruitless Mountain will remain tare.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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The site has also attracted blue herons, kingfishers, otters, deer, bears, California condors and a resident herd of elk notorious for tearing up new seedlings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Wildfires are currently tearing through France and Spain.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I have to care about Darrell’s heart,” he said, referring to himself and tearing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Instead of a caregiving crisis bringing families together out of shared love for an ailing parent, it’s tearing many of them apart.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“I knew it,” Delia said, tearing up at the terrible thought.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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A year ago, Russell Martin tore strips off his Rangers team after an opening day draw at Motherwell.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The explosion, suspected to be caused by methane gas, tore through the mine near the capital of the resource-rich province of Balochistan on Thursday, sparking a rescue operation that ran through the night.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole far from the center of a distant galaxy as it tore apart and consumed a star.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Civil War tore the country apart but eventually led to the abolishment of slavery.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Every year, it woke Clare from sleep, a jolt of energy that tore through the forest and left him briefly gasping for air.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Their only shelter was a tent, which was torn apart by the strike.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He started playing in adult leagues and became so invested that in his mid-30s, when a surgeon told him he’d torn his labrum, he said, “Is my career over?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Roughly once every 100,000 years, a star in a given galaxy may stray close enough to one of these black holes to be torn apart in a tidal disruption event.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
In Chapineria, west of Madrid, the flames had torn through dozens of vehicles at an industrial park, leaving charred shells behind, AFP photographers saw.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The torn picture of her grandmother seemed to have softened her.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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