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Recent Examples of tick
Many have tick lists, social media followings, and big money on the line.
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Corey Buhay, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
Still, this morning's data showing a tick higher in the unemployment rate and generally sluggish labor demand has tested the cyclical optimism a bit.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
Tennis star Coco Gauff leads the way for the third straight year with $31 million, a tick ahead of her rival Aryna Sabalenka ($30 million).
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Dec. 2025
At the shelter, Petersen weighed, photographed and gave tick medicine to one of the two strays, before leading it down a corridor of cages with barking dogs — many of them up for adoption and tended to by staff and volunteers.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2025
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Tied at 19, the Chiefs got the ball back with four minutes left, with the chance to march for a game-winning field goal.—
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There can be 30 minutes of small waves before a sneaker wave strikes.—
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Kane opened the scoring on a two-man advantage with 29 seconds left in the first period.—
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Instead, Prairie View A&M was forced to foul on the other end, and UAPB guard Kristyna Boyd made one of her two fouls shots with 10 seconds to go to set the final score.—
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The franchise is known for highly caffeinated coffee confections, along with shakes, smoothies and popular seasonal menus.—
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These are great for prepping smoothies for the week, storing homemade health shots, or bringing a protein shake to the gym in an eco-friendly container.—
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There’s just all there to kind of lift us in every moment.—
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And though Li has won playoff games before in previous stops, with previous teams, winning Saturday would be a nice moment for himself, too.—
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Within a split second, Ross firing three shots, including one through the windshield, killing Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had moved to Minnesota.—
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Feig seems lost in pleasantly tipsy thought for a split second.—
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Make sure that the mics are in the right place, make sure the drummer can keep a beat.—
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Chalamet then studied and memorized these beats.—
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Transfer skillet to preheated oven; bake until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of pork reads 140°F and sauce is bubbling, 18 to 20 minutes.—
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The dancing baby was an instant hit from the second viewers saw it.—
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Digoxin Digoxin is used to treat heart failure and certain types of irregular heartbeats.—
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World-first findings on coffee and irregular heartbeat University of Adelaide and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers led a randomized clinical trial of 200 adults from Australia, the US and Canada with atrial fibrillation (AF) to test coffee's impact on irregular heartbeats.—
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“Tick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tick. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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