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passing

noun as in death

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Both teams rushed the ball fairly well — the Bucs had 14 carries for 60 yards and the Chiefs had 11 for 57 — but Kansas City got much of that production from quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who has struggled in the passing game.

For Green, though, his passing, screening and acumen are critical to opening the door for Curry to carry the scoring load.

He was used sparingly by the Raiders in the passing game this season, catching 13 passes for 69 yards and two scores.

The Bills struggled when the passing game was thrown off rhythm in 2020.

The league is shifting more and more to the passing game, allowing average quarterbacks to tally higher yardage totals just by virtue of suiting up under center.

The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

While Drake is redefining realness, Iggy is effectively “passing.”

Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchet—Legislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them.

It was a Republican Congress working with a Democratic president that succeeded in passing the welfare reform bill the first time.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.

In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.

Passing, now, to the other side of elasticity—i.e., contractility—can we say as much?

It may be noted in passing that in the three miracles in Matthew of exorcising a blinding demon the title “Son of David” is used.

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

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