I groaned, knowing my name was on the invitation list.
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"I think it was a redheaded man, short …" A. groaned.
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Others, presumably feeling the cold a little more, audibly groaned.
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I groaned when I heard "Heisenberg" was traveling to Broadway.
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"I'll be avoiding this like the plague," another user groaned.
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Hopefully all of you groaned as much as they did.
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They groaned throughout the morning while watching Mickelson shoot 77.
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When Anthony finally passed to a teammate, the crowd groaned.
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And I groaned yet again when it came up tonight.
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The fans in the large grandstand behind the green groaned.
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Ivanka groaned dismissively and tried to get them to change subjects.
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"They're all slabs of glass and metal," we groaned in 2016.
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But my mother only groaned and gave the meat another whack.
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She groaned and buried her head under a pillow in response.
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All the black people in the room groaned and laughed simultaneously.
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Their muscles ached, their lungs heaved, their bodies creaked and groaned.
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At the prospect of revealing her new boardroom role, Paltrow groaned.
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"Can we please move on?" she groaned, before ultimately offering a response.
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There was no hug, the camera cut away and the crowd groaned.
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My concerns were confirmed when everyone bit into the meat and groaned.
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Stepping away from the table afterward, Tokarczuk groaned and pretended to collapse.
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Democrats audibly groaned when he started stoking fears about migrant caravans. Sen.
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It did: Every time my stomach groaned I imagined temporarily orphaned children.
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Some have groaned that this autumn has demonstrated that NASA's infrastructure is aging.
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They both groaned at the first stroke of her tongue on Chrisanne's pussy.
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A man in the next room groaned for hours, surrounded by his family.
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He groaned against her tongue, feeling the blood rushing to his groin already.
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Chad's woes recall an earlier era, when African economies groaned beneath unpayable debts.
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N. groaned when I repeated this to him the next morning at school.
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Russell groaned and wiped off the black ash with an even filthier cloth.
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Now, as the audience groaned at his attacks on other candidates, he snapped.
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As we crossed the Manhattan Bridge, the brakes groaned and the train stopped.
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The kid behind me groaned that he wouldn't be able to Snapchat his night.
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His co-host at the time, Teresa Strasser, groaned as Carolla made the prediction.
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"I have destroyed the truffle," he groaned, displaying the chunk he had broken off.
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Instead the ball dribbled into the middle of the net, and the crowd groaned.
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Branches and leaves ricocheted off the tent, and the trees around Diggity Stream groaned.
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A massive greenside gallery groaned as An's putt burned the rim of the cup.
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I groaned in pain and they ordered me to stop making noise for them.
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And when the meat finally came off the Cinder my roommate actually groaned with joy.
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HuffPost reports that politicians in the chamber audibly groaned at the sound of Chope's objection.
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The shuttlecock fell harmlessly, the crowd gasped and Malaysian fans slapped their foreheads and groaned.
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"Meanwhile, painting is dead," Mr. Hannah groaned playfully when recalling the era's reigning artistic spirit.
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Andrew Das: The entire stadium (save the England fans) groaned as Cuadrado's shot sailed high.
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Scores of guests have groaned about hosts who have canceled reservations at the last minute.
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Her mother smelled the food and groaned, then her eyes opened and she whispered, Baby.
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As the cabinet members spoke, an apparently liberal audience laughed and groaned and occasionally whooped.
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We eagerly packed my Jeep, and it groaned with the weight of our camping gear.
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The great wooden beams of the temple's halls had flexed and groaned with the strain.
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His shoulders stiffened under her hands and he groaned loudly, tossing his head back in pleasure.
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When I sent her a draft of this article to nail down some facts she groaned.
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After some in the New England crowd moaned and groaned -- this is Patriots country -- Bush protested.
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Nathanson, one of the judges, popped a stuffed mushroom into his mouth and groaned with pleasure.
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All night long the trains thundered past his building, garbage trucks groaned, and police sirens wailed.
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I groaned about the time required to type in data, assign a score, all of it.
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One patron reminded her that the popular sake bar was closed on Sundays, and she groaned.
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An ordinary day: A presidential detail, a day off Bottenfield groaned as he woke up that day.
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At the post-performance Q&A I attended, the panel even groaned at the mention of it.
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She says the studio audience absolutely noticed too, and even groaned as she was struggling to speak.
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Founded in 363, it's among the most prestigious (and most groaned-at) prizes in the art world.
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On the field, the players tried to bargain with him; off it, the fans groaned in despair.
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He groaned ever after when people mistakenly inferred that particle physics was somehow related to Eastern philosophy.
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Spectators on the ground groaned and cursed when the rocket disappeared into the clouds a minute later.
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When I heard Barack Obama say that women were "indisputably" better at leading than men, I groaned.
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So I'll be the first to admit that I groaned when I learned that the Gameball requires charging.
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The whole audience groaned when they realized the microphone had been cut and Lee wasn't able to speak.
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"This is worse than dictatorship," she groaned while waiting in the business-class lounge of Abu Dhabi airport.
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WHEN President Donald Trump tweeted "We want free, fair and SMART TRADE," on March 1st, trade-watchers groaned.
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"My husband accidentally shot me," Hill, 75, of The Dalles, Oregon, groaned on the May 143, 2015, call.
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After work, Brexit arose in nearly every conversation, and when it did people groaned with exhaustion and fury.
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As the man groaned in pain, a Muslim immigrant saw and took the wounded man to the hospital.
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About an hour into the journey, the outboard motor on their 20-foot fishing boat groaned and died.
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As I pondered the stakes of this new kind of labor, the conference room groaned, interrupting the daydream.
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So when "Collapse of Human Nature" sent Beth down a rabbit hole that led to Neolutionists, I actually groaned.
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Participants gave one another high fives when they thought they had the right answer and groaned when they didn't.
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One table groaned with Asian noodles and beef stew, a home-cooked meal that was gobbled off paper plates.
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Suzanne Berman told me her mother-in-law's Passover table in Silver Spring, Md., always groaned with Moroccan food.
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The crowd cheered his every move, groaned when he missed his first three shots, then roared for his bucket.
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"I'm just wondering if you're done, because you've been there for, like, half an hour," one member groaned to another.
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" But sometimes the crowd groaned or fell silent, prompting him at one point to say, "You guys are tough, man.
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Pitts's neck, seeking the locus of a muscle spasm, apologizing as the patient groaned with raw, guttural ache and fear.
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Even if not many people understood what he was talking about, they groaned at his puns in a friendly way.
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But there was one thing everyone agreed on: The Machine too often squeaked and groaned when it kicked into action.
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Welded hull plates groaned as the ship soared over the peaks and plunged into the troughs like a roller coaster.
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Their tray groaned with two pounds of brisket, two pounds of ribs, a quarter-pound of pulled pork and three sausages.
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"The reality of what they are to each other — I don't know how that's gonna..." She then groaned and mock-vomited.
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They groaned even more than big banks under the Dodd-Frank act, which bulked up the rule book after the crisis.
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When Trump said the United States would be at war with North Korea had he not won the presidency, Democrats groaned.
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" She slouched in her chair, groaned for a pair of sweatpants, and when the interview ended, she asked, excitedly, "It is over?
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" Members of the crowd groaned in disapproval of the members' offensive remarks, but Burkett fired back, saying, "You were all thinking it.
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Several members of the audience laughingly groaned when King George III lamented that fighting with France and Spain was making him blue.
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"Alms for your skyward sins," he groaned through the din of the growing crowd, lifting one dirty hand at her without looking up.
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The couple gyrated and groaned as my siblings and I shrieked with horror, despite the fact that this had happened many times before.
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When he urged Republican House members to support debt ceiling legislation as a favor to him, they groaned and hissed at the request.
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Behind him, police pried apart shouting drivers as hundreds of trucks slowly belched and groaned towards the Kenya-Tanzania border in Namanga town.
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During the season finale, I groaned when Shailene Woodley's Jane says she fears Ziggy might be violent because violence could be in his DNA.
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I groaned when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that all New York City subway stations would get Wi-Fi and cell connectivity this year.
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At the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on Tuesday, Mulvaney reportedly groaned when asked whether he believed infrastructure reform would pass.
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Two separate studies of college players have found that the speed of their serves and ground-strokes increased by 4-5% when they groaned.
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I feel like the world unanimously groaned when it was announced that Coldplay would be performing at the Super Bowl 50 halftime this year.
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We've all groaned and said some choice words when hitting deep potholes or been late to an appointment due to road or bridge closures.
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At other times, Pelosi could be seen motioning for Democrats to quiet down, like when they groaned at some of Trump's remarks regarding migrants.
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Over a raucous 45 minutes, the new members cheered, groaned and heckled as each person stepped forward to a mahogany box filled with chips.
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"If you look at Roger, I don't think he ever gets groaned at," Rusedski said, referring to the seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer.
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When France's goalkeeper Hugo Lloris saved Belgium's shot on goal, one viewer groaned audibly, twice: when the shot missed, and then again on the replay.
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" As Adam Levine voiced his disdain for the revelation ("Ew!" he jokingly groaned), her love Blake Shelton added, "I told you I knew that song.
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"I have no obligation to be honest with the media, because they're just as dishonest as everybody else," Lewandowski said, as the audience audibly groaned.
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Much like Uncle Jay's belt after the last slice of Thanksgiving pie, the November news cycle groaned under the weight of one meaty story after another.
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The outlet reported that after the announcement was made, the energy in the room shifted as audience members and bidders "gasped and groaned" over the mistake.
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If you've ever groaned at the prospect of eating kale, now you have the perfect excuse to back away from your health-conscious friend's green smoothie.
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"Come on, really?" he groaned in the clip as he realized Lambert was videotaping him, but not before the musician zoomed in on his six-pack.
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At a moment when he could have offered positive advice about life, love and leadership, he bragged about his accomplishments in office and groaned about unfairness.
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"For years, armies of bank lobbyists & executives have groaned about how financial rules are hurting them," Ms. Warren wrote on Twitter ahead of the House vote.
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Thirteen minutes into the opening episode, a woman in labor groaned in distress, and the nurse-midwife, Patsy, used a gloved hand to check her progress.
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Angelenos acted like they were bestowed a gift from above, while the rest of us groaned and slipped on the ice for the third time this winter.
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"By the way so … Kris says Kylie's not confirming anything, so that's the news from the family," he said, glancing at his iPhone as the audience groaned.
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I'll admit to sometimes finding the way he plays with time borderline gimmicky, and when I first heard about Dunkirk's structural gambit, I groaned a little bit.
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It was the first day of the scallop season and the deck already groaned with the "white gold" of a bumper season in the waters off northern France.
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Wearing just a night gown and no shoes, Etienne groaned and grimaced in the agony of labor, and a natural birth would be dangerous for her, friends said.
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They groaned when her senior season was cut short by a knee injury and roared with approval when she returned to the court and began her professional career.
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Multiple people at the meeting told The Hill that lawmakers groaned when he said that his goal was "not to win elections" but to overhaul the political process.
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Many reporters, eager for fresh material, may have groaned inwardly when Stephanopoulos turned the final debate question into personal discussions of resilience in the lives of the candidates.
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Adults who grew up loving the original "Star Wars" trilogy may have groaned in disappointment, but for their kids, "Phantom" was the start of their "Star Wars" trilogy.
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I confess that I groaned and gnashed my teeth at another sound clue, 38D: GESSO "we're clear …," even though saying it out loud really does sort of work.
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I actually saw it sitting next to Allegra and audibly groaned and grunted during some of the shoddy dialogue — especially the part where Peter gives Mysterio the glasses.
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So it wasn't a surprise that many SF fans groaned when it was announced that Blade Runner would be next in the endless series of Hollywood reboots and sequels.
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"None of them accuse me of doing anything other than -- maybe they didn't like a joke I told," Bloomberg replied, as some in the crowd audibly gasped or groaned.
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When I visited him at the huge Seattle medical center, he fumbled with the straw in his water glass and groaned when a nurse asked him to turn over.
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None of the victims said they had been sexually assaulted, but one of them said Mr. Smyth had occasionally stripped naked and groaned in "spiritual ecstasy" during the lashings.
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When Oklahoma used midazolam and two other drugs to execute inmate Clayton Lockett in 2014, the prisoner groaned, spoke out loud, and moved his hands and head for several minutes.
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Certainly, that seemed the case at F8 today where a slightly rain-soaked audience groaned through Zuckerberg's dad jokes and listened in anticipation as he teased what was to come.
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When he failed to actually say the words — which, you know, was the entire reason the character exists in this story — the entire theater I was in groaned out loud.
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As a ranger helped to clear the grass and weeds wrapped tightly on the bunny's neck, the tortoise grunted and groaned as it was taken away from its new best friend.
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Naturally, some bloggers groaned at the loss of the gritty quality of the Vimeo original (the highlighted writer also has a review of Stranger Things season 2 on her blog's sidebar).
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When some onlookers groaned in response to Maher's use of the word, Maher responded that it was just "a joke" as he literally waved off those who may have been offended.
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Around the Gizmodo office, my colleagues groaned when news broke that following a refresh of its laptop line, there would no longer be a standard MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar.
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That became clear as the 54-year-old Dublin-born singer and guitarist painfully groaned as I coerced him into ranking his studio records (they've also released a few live ones).
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He announced from the podium that Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator who recently announced he had Stage 4 lung cancer, would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as some Democrats groaned.
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The huge gallery that had turned up early to watch the 14-times major champion groaned almost in unison as Woods missed a four-footer and a couple of six-footers.
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My sister and I groaned when trapped in a car listening to my brother croon Sinatra and Dean Martin tunes, finally succumbing as we hummed along with the ones we liked too.
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One of the options was that you would go to your local high school, and everyone in the class groaned when the sub said that it would mean going to Ben Franklin.
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While Williams grimaced, groaned and growled louder and louder with each passing minute of the contest, Bertens looked like she was having plenty of fun despite failing to win the points that mattered.
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Last week, when Page Six reported that Davidson was spotted exiting the apartment of 22016-year-old model Kaia Gerber (daughter of Cindy Crawford and Casamigos co-founder Rande Gerber), Twitter commentators groaned.
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Both times I've seen the film, the audience has groaned audibly at that title card, as if they were hoping for some light-hearted moment of reprieve to make everything a little better.
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People laughed knowingly at the depiction of shrill Chinese mainlanders and their over-the-top, nouveau riche ways, and groaned at the familiar sight of overbearing parents meddling in their children's love life.
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Biden acolytes have expressed that Clinton tried to box him out of a run, while Clinton supporters have groaned that the vice president's prolonged decision-making distracted from her role in the race.
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The players who did not stop running, even when their bodies were screaming at them to stop, even when they could not catch their breath, even when their very bones groaned under the load.
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GUÁNICA, P.R. — Not long after José Méndez Marrero, a civil engineer, arrived on Saturday to inspect the damage at a Puerto Rican town crippled by a big earthquake, the ground beneath him groaned. Again.
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His office groaned with medical journals, and in 1974, with $2,700 from the bank, he started Selected Readings in General Surgery, a collection of the most useful new articles to save weary students searching.
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Television news crews outside his Jackson Heights home Monday captured footage of a frail-looking man, missing his front teeth, who groaned in pain as he was hoisted on a stretcher into an ambulance.
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A few of my colleagues asked me about the screen resolution as soon as I got the Spectre in for review and groaned when I told them it's a full HD (23,920 x 1,080) panel.
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Up close, the surging wall of ice almost 200 meters (656 ft) high, above Hassanabad village in Hunza district, cracked and groaned in the May sun as ice and debris fell off in big chunks.
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What's far more depressing -- and corrosive to our broader culture -- is that while some people in the Michigan audience groaned when Trump suggested John Dingell might be in hell, plenty of other laughed and applauded.
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I groaned when, in one of the show's undeniably breathtaking battle sequences, these blue-eyed skeletor-demons streamed over a steep cliff like so many black sequins spilling from an Oscar de la Renta ball gown.
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In a shop named "White & Red", green-grey carp glistened in ice boxes; shelves groaned with pierogi (dumplings) and bottles of bison-grass vodka; piles of sachets variously containing hay and communion wafers teetered by the till.
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Diplomats say he has a sense of "noblesse oblige" that puts him at ease in foreign capitals (though diplomats at the US embassy in Belgium groaned when he once spoke about bicycling along the "future foie gras").
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The crowd groaned when he fluffed the next point but the thrills kept on coming in the tiebreak as he finished off a 30-stroke rally by punching away a volley as he fell into the splits.
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" Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma and a veteran of stints in both the minority and the majority, groaned when asked what advice he had for his House brethren who had tasted only life on top. "Oh.
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"Definitely it would mean a longer day of business," said Lynn Archer, a chef who owns two restaurants in Rockland, Me., and groaned the other day as the harbor there glowed pink during an early evening sunset.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Tuesday night, Americans variously swooned and groaned through election night, while the artists at WhiteBox sounded a clarion call to political action by stringing together a flurry of prescient performances.
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It was just the coin toss to determine which team receives the ball first - the Los Angeles Rams won when the coin landed "tails" up - and those in the crowd who lost a few dollars groaned and grimaced.
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Although the dialogue in these scenes leaves much to be desired (I groaned when Layla told Farid, "You dishonored me"), the revelation that she believes his embrace of reason over faith has made him spiritually bankrupt is intriguing.
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The man, a retired farmer who refused to provide his name to reporters, told Biden at the end of the exchange, "It looks like you don't have any more backbone than Trump has" as the audience audibly groaned.
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But where others saw Uber's travails as a symbol of Silicon Valley comeuppance, Khosrowshahi saw something less loaded: a sophisticated tech company that had taken on too much, too quickly, and whose systems groaned under the weight and confusion.
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Faint laughter also greeted Trump's vow that he had moved to "drain the swamp of government corruption" in Washington, D.C. Democrats additionally groaned when Trump mentioned his new office focusing on crimes committed by people in the country illegally.
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NO PUN INTENDED was my other significant contribution (I sifted through a sea of dad jokes for the right clue, so I hope you groaned at the one I chose), and then John brought the sparkle with the other stacks.
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CreditCreditJohn Taggart for The New York Times The wilting three-story building in Greenwich Village that houses the 13th Street Repertory Company creaked and groaned as its artistic director, Joe Battista, gave a tour of its theater one afternoon in July.
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In town hall-style meetings and meet-and-greets across the country last week, constituents bemoaned Mr. Trump's policies, groaned at his refusal to heed congressional subpoenas and fretted over what they saw as an erosion of the rule of law.
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My son's best friend in New York, all through middle school and high school, was a Yankee fanatic, and they negotiated listening to games together, even going to games together, sitting side by side, one cheering while the other groaned.
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And with a new venue and a younger audience came new standards of theater decorum: The middle and high school students groaned when things went badly for the protagonists and cheered shamelessly at insults lobbed at the town's most virulent racists.
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" Balancing act -- Rehnquist also groaned that he still had to keep up with the usual run of Supreme Court cases during the impeachment trial, so, as he wrote in one letter, "the trial is in one sense an unwelcome burden.
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The systematic misspelling of the names is too much a matter of course to be worth noticing; but why should such a stirring sentence as '"O-oh!" broke out Kutuzoff in a burst of despairing rage' be watered into 'Koutouzow groaned in despair'?
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He snapped, he furrowed his brow, and he groaned over the repeated queries about moving the 2.441-year-old Carlos Beltran back to right field from the designated hitter role he had thrived in while Rodriguez spent three weeks nursing a hamstring injury.
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And even if some of those communities were shaped by land speculators, their names are windows into a colorful past where landscapes were thick with beavers, factories still groaned with heavy machinery and stepping into a wrong tavern could get you killed.
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The announcement made by commissioner Jay Monahan at high noon was jarring and at odds with the buzz at TPC Sawgrass as the world's top golfers went about their business while fans cheered and groaned with each shot under clear blue skies.
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The announcement made by commissioner Jay Monahan at high noon was jarring and at odds with the buzz at TPC Sawgrass as the world's top golfers went about their business while fans cheered and groaned with each shot under clear blue skies.
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Anthony "Rumble" Johnson is a terrifying banger and when Ryan Bader came out against him in 2016 and slowly pursued the world's most obvious single leg takedown attempt we all groaned and wondered how long it would take Johnson to put him away.
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In a room full of Conservatives loyal to his campaign who groaned when journalists brought up lists of past indiscretions, including a report he had taken cocaine, Johnson repeatedly sidestepped questions, using his trademark colourful metaphors and language to change the subject.
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When he tried to pass off a pen to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that was used for a bill regarding Housing and Urban Development Secretary nominee Ben Carson, Schumer groaned, prompting a laugh from House Speaker Paul Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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We bought her album over 1 million times in its first weekend, even while mocking her Saturday Night Live performance, and we groaned at her horrible choreography even while smashing that pre-order button and adding a Reputation UPS truck to our Instagram stories.
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Thus far, only one partner has commented on my pre-coital routine: A former boyfriend groaned about how long I took taking off my makeup and even fell asleep by the time I was finally ready to go, but it's hardly hurt my sex life.
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When my Dad switched on the big light, closed the office door and pulled out a notepad and a pencil, I groaned a little as I knew I was going to be stuck in there for at least half an hour, listening to him.
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They talked to their cards, asking for good ones; they groaned at bad luck or barked happily when the cards they needed came to them and they felt blessed, as if something somewhere cared about them, and for a second they'd been given proof.
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When it became known that Mr. Rothman and his team were working intensely to revive "Jumanji," a 1995 family fantasy about children trapped in a board game, movie fans groaned: a sure sign of desperation as Mr. Rothman scoured Sony's library for potential franchises.
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We groaned as we went through the usual baptism of fire for any new immigrant, the cocked-eyebrow and puzzled look as you struggle to get your words across, the constant sniggers and cries of "sorry, I didn't get that," little snipes at the outwardly different and the distinctive.
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My husband groaned in frustration and tried his best to make his son appreciate that the Queen's role in opening and ending Parliament is largely archaic and performative, a vestige of a pre-modern era when the monarch still had a substantive say in the making of law.
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Even those who weren't caught off guard, because they read the comics or internet rumors, or were just ready to see him go after all the Dumpster chicanery last year, had to have been moved to revulsion, at least, by Glenn's bulging eyeball as he groaned his last words to Maggie.
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"Cash Shit" generates manic tension from few sounds, as the low, amelodic bass combines with the drum machine's clattery claps and softer cymbals to produce a rhythmic pattern that sounds more complex than it is — a needling, stressful sound when played in the background; the groaned ad-libs are also percussive elements.
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For anyone who has ever thought that the use of clothing as a political tool was frivolous or overstated, or groaned at yet another piece insisting that a woman in a white pantsuit was making a statement, there was no better riposte than the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
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Or, put another way: The five episodes of season three that I've seen are generally tighter and faster-paced than the episodes in True Detective's first two seasons, but I still groaned when I saw that one was well over an hour long, because Pizzolatto hasn't entirely lost his taste for indulgence.
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Florida's current lethal injection protocol consists of a cocktail of three drugs, including Midazolam, which has been used in high-profile botched executions — like Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, who writhed and groaned on the gurney after 16 attempts to inject him, and Joseph Wood in Arizona, whose execution dragged on for nearly two hours.
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Even when we're together around the table, with crackers in our hands and approximations of smiles on our faces, compliments passing around about the turkey and the wine and the new jumpers, jokes told and groaned at and chucked on the floor, the sensation that something is missing is always hanging above us, rolling up, if we're lucky, into the extractor fan.
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Anybody who's listened to the radio during the past year and inadvertently (or otherwise) developed a taste for the bland, luscious, sensitive EDM permutation known as tropical house will instantly delight upon hearing this album, as will anybody who loved the sexy upbeat songs on Justin Bieber's Purpose but yawned and/or groaned when he strummed an acoustic confessional or spouted a didactic ballad.
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Third, the sequence revives the old-fashioned view of L.A. as a breeding ground of reverie and hope—a view that began to fade with "In a Lonely Place" (1950), where Bogart's mug was as glad as a whiskey sour, and died a rainy death in "Magnolia" (1999), as the cast, scattered around town, growled and groaned along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up." There is a storm of singin' in "La La Land," but no rain; the clemency of the weather is a God-given joke, and, even at Christmas, when Mia walks home after dark, she is clad as if for June.
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