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She spent 14 months patching up U.S. soldiers and Iraqi prisoners at Camp Bucca, then a detention facility in southeast Iraq.

Q, who was home patching up a leg which had caught a bullet at Stone River, came in, and his advice was asked.

Patching up the old church was a frequent source of great outlay for some years before it was determined to build a new one.

How d'you think I'm going to spend all my time patching up your holes and tatters?

The others had something more sensible to do, I fancy, than patching up romances about their neighbours.

The Ostjaks were now for some days employed in patching up their huts and preparing them to withstand the cold of winter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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