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Example sentences for: countdown

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All the papers front countdown stories to Saturday's Iowa straw poll.
Last year's report, entitled “AIDS Vaccine Trials—Getting the Global House in Order,” officially ends the countdown.
The ad juxtaposed a little girl counting the petals on a flower with a nuclear countdown/detonation and asked if Americans wouldn't feel safer with LBJ as their president.
The lead story recounts the tense White House countdown to testimony, speculates on how Hillary felt during the ordeal (betrayed, then stalwart), and dissects the legal equivocations in The Speech.