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as in to pull
to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever
it took some effort to pry up the trap door
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as in to yank
to draw out by force or with effort
a vain attempt to pry the cork out of a wine bottle
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as in to interfere
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
don't go prying into other people's business
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Fire alarms sounded after a resident pulled the alarm, prompting crews to evacuate buildings as a precaution.
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Sorloth played high, facilitating Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard to rotate wide and pull deeper to get on the ball.
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Then, five days after the best start of his young MLB career coincided with one of his worst moments, he was yanked after just 2 1/3 innings in Sunday’s 11-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Winco also yanked about 13,500 Roman Candles 8 Shot 3-Pack Firework Devices.
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Here’s when to watch and how to catch the best views before bright moonlight interferes.
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One area where the government interfered rather aggressively in the economy concerned the rates and tariffs the railroads charged.
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The crew took part in rescuing a 47-year-old man who was pulled out of the rubble eight days after the quakes hit, lifting the spirits and morale of rescuers who up until then were primarily uncovering human remains.
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Elsewhere in the city, several heavy trucks were lifted and moved as far 30 meters by the winds.
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Once sufficient displays of submission had been extracted, would the bankrollers of the civic-education movement redirect their largesse back toward places like that?
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Those contracts call for Next Hydrogen to design and deliver an electrolyzer that extracts tritium from heavy water, a critical process for preparing fuel used in future fusion reactors.
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Calderón, a big, bald man wearing a gold chain and cross-shaped earrings, sat off to the side, amid an entourage of muscular assistants in polo shirts, poking at his phone.
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Find a location with an unobstructed view to the southeast, where the full moon’s orangey disk will poke above the horizon minutes after the moonrise time — though exactly when depends on local terrain and buildings.
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Patina Osaka’s ground-floor restaurant, P72, focuses on seasonal produce sourced nearby and plucked daily from the hotel’s urban garden.
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Eyebrows were being plucked into oblivion, bronzer was used in excess, and hair was parted deeply to one side.
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There was something a little therapeutic about messing it up.
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The sequence in which Carmy tries to talk Richie down from a panic attack feels equally dynamic and alive right to its conclusion — when Carmy pretends they’ve gotten locked in, just as Carmy once was, to mess with Richie’s head.
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“Pry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pry. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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