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free-climbed

verb

past tense of free-climb

as in ascended

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In 2002, a snowboarder named Marco Siffredi, who had ascended via another route, tried to descend the Hornbein.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
When Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, McCartney was just 10 years old.

— Monica Coviello, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

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With less than a week before the midterm elections, the Senate contest in Georgia appears to have shifted to relatively safe ground for Democrats, who have scaled back their spending on the race.

— New York Times, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026
After more than 4,500 responses, the Board of Education scaled the plan back to the essentials.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

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Portions of southwest Colorado and southeast Utah saw two to four inches, whereas areas with higher elevations, like the San Juan Mountains, got up to six inches.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Williamson, who wasn’t on the ALDS roster, made a diving grab on DeLauter’s sharp grounder, got up and threw him out.

— Rob Maaddi, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Concerns mounted in July, when OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached a company called Hugging Face.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

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Several diplomatic hurdles will need to be surmounted before any recovery effort can take its first steps.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index weathered a savage 30% drawdown, has been choppily trendless for two months, then in recent days finally broke above its downtrend and surmounted the 50-day moving average.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

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