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germ
noun as in microscopic organism, often causing illness
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The latest and most dramatic example is “Evil Unbound,” a big-budget film about an infamous unit of the Japanese Imperial Army that conducted germ warfare and chemical experiments on live humans.
School and nursery can be like a petri dish with lots of viruses circulating and they may well bring these germs home with them.
It helps avoid the potential problem of cross contamination and germs from double-dippers and just in general everyone taking from the same plates.
As painful as it was for Tami to absorb firsthand “all the black, gray and blanch-white,” a germ of an idea took root in those ashes.
Farrell had what he called his “crutch” — the physical transmogrification — which also sparked a germ of fear in him, of “being a one-trick pony,” he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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