If the Dodgers go into one of their team-wide funks, they could get swept.
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Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Oct. 2026
The Padres managed just five hits, with one bouncing off a base to plate their first run of the game and another off a pitcher’s glove cracking the door open for a hitter in the deepest of funks.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
The wines and spirits division maintained its momentum with a 6 percent increase in organic sales, while revenues in perfumes and cosmetics were flat in the quarter.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
12 Oct. 2026
Perfectly lucid, aware of the smell of Simple Green overtaken by perfumes, the talcum stink of baby powder.
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