come to life
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“Basically,” Adams said, it was “making some of these plays come to life before I even had the opportunity to run some of the routes.”
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The Bruins came to life on offense, while the Trojans faded.
From Los Angeles Times
But the study sessions helped him understand “these are the different layers to the game, these are the different processes that we use to attack defenses. This makes the plays come to life.”
It’s like stumbling into an old Max Fleischer cartoon that has come to life.
From Los Angeles Times
Talk about what it was like to see that song and this album come to life as an opera with Chicago Lyric.
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