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Is there something in Coppola that always needs to be going for broke?

Bairstow's six-hitting has banked him millions of Rupees on these shores but he fell lifting the ball into the hands of long-off, neither going for broke nor playing safe.

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LeBron James and Anthony Davis played the second game on back-to-back nights like it was the first game of the season, big minutes on aching joints, going for broke.

Joshua is no longer the knockout king he was when coming through the pro ranks after winning Olympic gold in 2012, and he said he chose to box smart instead of going for broke against Franklin — even if many were hoping for a more explosive finish to the fight.

Democrats are obviously upset because going for broke in redistricting was a necessary precondition for them to have any path to holding the House.

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

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