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Defensive end Calijah Kancey’s cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Defensive end Calijah Kancey's cleats were covered in it, proverbially anyway.
From Fox News • Dec. 1, 2021
A judge would later find Chapman not guilty of manslaughter, but note sadly that “hindsight is proverbially better than foresight.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2021
Never revealing much about herself, she instead encouraged her clients to proverbially “tell her more.”
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2017
I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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