Kyle Tucker loped into foul territory, caught it and completed the second World Series championship in Houston Astros history.
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Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
But longtime fans will recognize the idiosyncratic wordplay, loping syllables and ornate hooks that bend toward a major chorus, all as magnetic today as when Weaver barreled into view a decade ago.
The frog leaped to national fame with Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which helped launch his writing career.
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Nathan Rott,
NPR,
19 July 2025
Alice in Seoul was the highest climber of all, leaping 33 spots from last year to no.13 on the list.
An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
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Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
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