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axes

noun as in large cutting tool

noun as in point around which something revolves

verb as in cut with large blade

verb as in dismiss

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We fled late at night to stay at the house of a friend who lived nearby, returning the next morning for the included breakfast of Johnny Cakes shaped like axes.

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No axes were ground in the making of “Mr. Scorsese.”

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But Neil and the chrome hearts would also swap their axes for acoustic guitars.

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That includes foreign adversaries, and even certain allies with their own axes to grind.

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As for the impressive flight sequences, in which Hiccup rides Toothless, the production created an animatronic dragon placed on a giant gimbal that moved on six different axes to simulate the physics of flying.

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

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