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At the right-wing media company The Daily Wire, the ladies’ auxiliary keeps outdoing the dudes.

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Vann and his auxiliary bishops posted a letter last month condemning the raids, which they said “invoke our worst instincts” and “spread crippling fear and anxieties upon the hard-working, everyday faithful among us.”

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A dress, a color palette, or an accessory becomes an auxiliary narrator, revealing a character’s state of mind or confidence.

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The men who bribed Jenkins paid for auxiliary deputy sheriff positions so they could avoid traffic tickets and carry concealed firearms without a permit, the prosecutors said.

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Kabila, a former general, was also disparaging about the government's handling of the security situation countrywide, especially the use of pro-government militias as "auxiliaries" of the armed forces.

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

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