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boil

verb as in heat to bubbling

verb as in be angry

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At the heart of each nest, in the innermost container, was a nuclear boiling water reactor.

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“The strategy,” Crispe said, “boils down to ‘We just have to be a bit better than Harvard and Columbia and then nobody will bother us.’”

At a recent meeting of Save Our Domes, a local environmental group, a member described the proposed mines as “equivalent to a huge festering boil on the face of a family member.”

To be online and aware is to be whacked over the head with clips of bloody conflict, obvious grifts and dogbrained tech that boils the oceans to create shareholder value forever.

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It can take quite a few years to get to to that boiling point.

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

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