After Jones' hat trick, the attendants had to pick up about 75 hats from the ice.

A "Gordie Howe hat trick" comprises a goal, an assist, and a fighting major penalty.

The car salesman came home with front-row seats after turning a hat trick at work.

Jones got a hat trick yesterday. Let's see if he can do something today.

And with the debut of his new series Hyperion Bay in 1998, Dougherty accomplished the rare "hat trick" in television: the pilot was written, executive-produced, and codirected by Dougherty.

Three murders in less than two weeks. That's a hat trick.

To pull this off, the authority required three things: the ability to identify cases in a timely fashion, and so determine the infection's direction of travel; an understanding of how the disease spread (by water? air? insect vector?), and hence the measures that were likely to block it; and some means of ensuring compliance with those measures. When all three of these ingredients – which we'll describe in more detail in the following sections – were in place, containment could be extremely effective, but a hat-trick was rare.

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