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clothesline

noun as in hearsay

noun as in line drive

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Other first responders also offered accounts — of babies beheaded, or hung from a clothesline, or killed together in a nursery, or placed in an oven – which were later debunked by Israeli reporters.

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A strip of a mud-floored foyer packs in a kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope beds and fraying clotheslines.

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Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.

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We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.

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Women hang up bedding on clotheslines in the morning to keep them dry during the day, then lay them on the ground at night to sleep.

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