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Andy laughs in a warm, joking manner as he tells the anecdote about Tom's left hand, suggesting they don't always agree at first on what to work on in the gym that day.

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As you might expect, Carlile is full of similarly starry anecdotes.

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There were nice anecdotes to tell about Wembanyama’s eclectic offseason, how he trained with monks in China, worked on his post moves with Hakeem Olajuwon, played a lot of chess and visited NASA.

But it was a tour bus anecdote in his autobiography.

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She said: "To have people on the inside who smile to our faces, sit next to us at meetings, share jokes, anecdotes, before stabbing us in the back is very sad indeed."

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

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