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Networks have goosed up their talent’s at-home Internet, keeping signals as clear as possible, and direct video feeds between the play-by-play announcer and analyst help compensate for the loss of in-person glances and shoulder taps.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021
Knowing that Remini’s series has so vociferously riled up the Church has to have goosed the A&E audience’s curiosity far more than if it had done the minimal disavowal and left it at that.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2016
But in the long run mutational variety is the raw material of evolution, and if this theory is correct, then these parasites may have goosed our brains and made them function better.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2012
But costs slowed the project, and the legislature voted down a 2 cents-per-gal. gas tax that might have goosed it along.
From Time Magazine Archive
