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flick

verb as in light touch

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She made her mark against Australia, flicking a header on to the crossbar in the second half and coming close on several occasions.

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A spider can flick off irritating hairs from the backside of its abdomen, which feel like fiberglass or minute cactus spines.

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Indeed, the good, cheap, unrespectable, unambitious variety of scare flick has mostly disappeared from the big screen.

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"A time came for me when a switch was flicked, it was in the lead up to the Paris Games. I went through some health challenges, which, quite frankly, really rocked me mentally," she said.

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The Trojans drove 75 yards in 11 plays in barely six minutes, scoring to take the lead on a two-yard flick to a wide-open Ja’Kobi Lane.

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

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