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in the swim

  1. Actively participating, in the thick of things, as in He was new in town, but he soon got in the swim at school. This expression alludes to the fishing term for a large number of fish in one area, a so-called swim. [Mid-1800s]



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Around 200 people are expected to participate in the swim, Molner said, despite the skepticism her organization encountered when they first announced the event.

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As he prepared for the show to open in April, Di Donna gently blew on “Poisson” and it performed on cue, doing a delicately turning dance in response — a perfect bit of inspiration for art lovers who want to get in the swim of things this spring.

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In the next step, they then looked for instances of order in the swim trajectories.

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Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out after two competitors died while participating in the swim element of an Ironman event in Youghal, County Cork.

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Both men got into difficulty in the swim element of the half Ironman triathlon event at Claycastle beach on Sunday.

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