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Recent Examples of tailback
But tailback Trevor Etienne, defensive end Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins and guards Dylan Fairchild and Jared Wilson would have been too.
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Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
There are reasons to like certain Eagles matchups, like their excellent secondary against the Chiefs receivers or tailback Saquon Barkley against a KC defense that struggled to stop the run in the AFC Championship against the Buffalo Bills.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2025
As a mentor and sounding board, Faulk could be a coup for CU’s tailbacks.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
Most notably, both tackle Patrick Paul and tailback Jaylen Wright, the latter of whom was invited but didn’t play in the game due to injury, caught scouts eyes in 2024.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2025
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Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
There are reasons to like certain Eagles matchups, like their excellent secondary against the Chiefs receivers or tailback Saquon Barkley against a KC defense that struggled to stop the run in the AFC Championship against the Buffalo Bills.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2025
As a mentor and sounding board, Faulk could be a coup for CU’s tailbacks.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
Most notably, both tackle Patrick Paul and tailback Jaylen Wright, the latter of whom was invited but didn’t play in the game due to injury, caught scouts eyes in 2024.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailback
Noun
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The annual event will feature vendors, strawberries, strawberry jam, themed basket drawings and arts and crafts.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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To originally launch her lifestyle brand in April 2024, Meghan sent jars of homemade strawberry jam to influencers and friends, each one labeled with a number from one to 50.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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No one paid much attention to the Oklahoma City bottleneck, including the FAA’s own Office of Inspector General which inexplicably failed to mention it in a report on the controller shortage.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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The drug has historically been delivered via autoinjector pens, which emerged as a major bottleneck in ramping up supply.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2025
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Image For Meghan, the incident is the latest snarl in her efforts to create a lifestyle brand.—
Katie Van Syckle,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Still, in the cadre of causes (which include supply chain snarls, shifts in demand and spending patterns and Russia’s war in Ukraine) some prominent economists have said the massive fiscal packages passed under Trump and Biden stoked demand.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Tailback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailback. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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