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drum

verb as in beat, tap a beat

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In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds, directing salt production, and courting arrest.

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A cello’s has the aura of a bass drum.

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The British singer and his band trade instruments with a sense of ease — splitting their time among a cello, keyboards, synthesizers, a drum machine, electric and acoustic guitars.

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"I have impartiality through my bones," he told the committee, saying it was "drummed" into him when he joined the BBC in 1991.

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Like Mr. Taylor, Mr. Chambers studied several instruments before settling on the drums.

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

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