Vocabulary Video Winners: Verbs

A young reporter named Lincoln Steffens — who went on to become a muckraking journalist and author — experienced Byrnes’s omniscient abilities firsthand, after a pickpocket absconded with his weekly pay. New York Times (Feb 9, 2018)

The starch is what allows the pasta and sauce to amalgamate. The Guardian (May 17, 2020)

The founder of the Human Dignity Film Institute and its festival, he is accused of insulting and defaming the military in Facebook posts critical of the Constitution and the military’s role in politics. New York Times (Aug 16, 2019)

The Facebook employees who meet to set the guidelines, mostly young engineers and lawyers, try to distill highly complex issues into simple yes-or-no rules. New York Times (Dec 27, 2018)

They want to finally exorcise the ghost of Lost Cause historiography, the romanticization of the Confederacy that still haunts textbooks in some corners of the South. New York Times (Jun 26, 2021)

Iranian athletes are forbidden to compete with Israelis in any sport, and, if necessary, are told to forfeit their matches or to feign sickness. New York Times (Nov 28, 2017)

Rigged to a leaf blower, the contraption levitated inches above the ground, even with someone in the chair. New York Times (Jun 6, 2011)

In New Jersey, sponsors also conceded that the makeup of the State Senate — where Democrats hold more seats, but not the supermajority needed to reverse a veto — was likely to scotch any override. New York Times (Dec 28, 2014)

Trying to defeat the ideology that fuels the extremists is a much tougher task, officials conceded — one that is likely to vex Mr. Trump as it did the Obama administration. New York Times (Oct 17, 2017)