carried away
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Yet he was rightly not getting carried away following his first Premier League win.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
AFP reporters saw dozens of protestors being carried away by police.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
So let’s not get too carried away by the fact Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood are working as fast as they are in their late 70s and early 80s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
In another, a limp man partly covered in a blanket was carried away in a stretcher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
The mouse dropped the nut, which fell into the brook and was carried away, to be swallowed by a salmon.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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