as in to limp
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Towns landed awkwardly after Porzingis’ rejection and limped to the locker room.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
23 Feb. 2025 -
The next game, Westbrook limped off the court in Philadelphia with his untimely injury.—
Bennett Durando,
The Denver Post,
19 Feb. 2025
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Embiid has been hobbled by injuries all season, and served a three-game suspension for shoving a member of the media.—
Chantz Martin,
Fox News,
1 Mar. 2025
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Unsurprisingly, both of these Jaguars flopped, and those failures and others hobbled the marque’s ambitions to transform into a British BMW.—
Ben Oliver,
Robb Report,
1 Mar. 2025
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Hoping to out-Elon Elon, Gov. Ron DeSantis saddled up and brought out his own little DOGE-y last week, a prancing pony of an excuse for real governing.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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At times, the show subverts expectations, casting Salonga as the Into the Woods witch while Peters prances about in a red cloak as Little Red Riding Hood.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Gimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gimp. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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