Word: snagging
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Clearly, this was an exceptional snag in a generally sound policy. Often there is no need to make nouns gender specific. If the sex of the person holding a position is truly irrelevant, then terms like "chairwoman" and "salesman" provide extraneous information. There is no good reason why "he" should be used instead of "she" in the general case. And understandably, people dislike the term "freshman," which excludes half of the first-year class...
...jobs, with a potential contribution to the local economy of $300 million by the year 2000. Then the commission learned that Apple extends health benefits to the live-in partners of unmarried employees, whether straight or gay. Jobs or no jobs, that was a big snag...
Those numbers were good enough to snag Snowden the season's first Ivy League Rookie of the Week award and got Rankin a spot on the League's weekly Honor Roll...
...didn't win this year's pageant, don't worry. You might snag that diamond tiara next year. There hasn't been a better pageant since Bert Parks shuffled of to that great runway...
Harvard's search for a new vice president for government, community and public affairs has hit a snag, and an appointment probably won't be made until the end of the semester...