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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.

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

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