pried

The shifting balance of power between these aesthetic worldviews encapsulates the story of what happened when Japan was pried open to Western influences.

Austin Capobianco, the Yankees fan who grabbed Betts’ glove and pried the ball out of it, told The Times, “I’m a way too passionate fan that probably crossed the line.”

The scorpion has depths that ensure their insides will also be pried open — whether they like it or not, and no matter how hard they may toil and calculate to keep all their secrets.

Events that once might have given someone pause or pried loose a shaky partisan or two — the attempted assassination of Trump, Harris’ strong debate performance — have evidently passed with nary a ripple.

The owner’s granddaughter toddled forward and offered me the coin she had pried from under Samir’s foot.