volley
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Josh Acheampong: The young defender looked shaky early on but recovered well, making a fantastic block from a Bruno Fernandes volley and improving as the game went on.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Representatives for Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Loews hotel chains, all targeted in the first volley of lawsuits, did not respond to requests for comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The lawsuit is the latest volley in a battle between Optimum and its creditors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Morgan Rogers: Opened the scoring with a first-time volley after just two minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In a volley of pathbreaking papers published between 1986 and 1990, Nüsslein-Volhard and her colleagues definitively identified several of the factors that provide the signal for “headness” and “tailness” in the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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There’s much more, and he unleashed it against Alcaraz: powerful baseline play, aggressive returns, changes of speed, and even coming to the net for clever volleys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Two tanker ships were attacked off the coast of Oman on Monday, in the latest volleys in the area.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Now he’s gone dark, deleting his X.com account after exchanging volleys with a radio reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The mixed performance comes as Israel and Iran exchanged volleys of fire, renewing tensions in the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
The Squirrels bombarded him with volleys of nuts, but he only covered his head with his hands and tried to keep out of the way.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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After one troll asked him, “Are you a boy or a girl?” he volleyed back: “My dad is a boy and my mom is a girl. So I’m mixed xx.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a Ligue 1 match against Bastia, the left-back attempted a volleyed clearance 30 yards out from his own goal.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
With Chelsea in disarray, Gordon and Woltemade carved open them yet again on the stroke of half-time, but on this occasion the German somehow volleyed wide when it seemed easier to score.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
Alas, Seattle volleyed back with its own 56-yard field goal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
When the defense converged, Mandela flicked the ball to Sebajden, a wiry Kosovar midfielder, who volleyed the shot: goal.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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Murray will be remembered for his razor-sharp volleying skills and the preposterous angles he conjured at the net.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
The forward rounded off an excellent night by volleying home Matteo Ruggeri's cross with three minutes to go.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
And so, on a black Christmas night, with sleet volleying into their faces, columns of men struggled through some of the most inhospitable fields to ever yield up a victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“And then when they were volleying, I feel like you could hear a burger flip in the kitchen.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
It was dark here in front: only the bright door sent ten square feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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