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yanked

verb as in pull hard and fast

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As his wife, Paula, started driving, he quickly yanked the garage door back down.

Then he yanked up that bridge up and decided, at age 81, to seek another term.

The other fan then grabbed the wrist of Betts’ throwing hand and yanked on it so the outfielder couldn’t grab the ball, which squirted out of Betts’ glove and fell onto the dirt warning track.

Buehler got his next batter, former Dodgers outfielder David Peralta, to two strikes, before throwing an inside fastball that was yanked down the line for a two-run double.

It occurred in 2019, when Trump was president and his administration yanked a total of $271 million from the Department of Homeland Security, including $155 million from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund, to address a surge in asylum applications.

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

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