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The 'time of their lives', is the gist.

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But that’s the gist of what they would be asked to do, which bespeaks no small amount of hubris on Newsom’s part.

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The gist of Miller’s spiel — in fact, the worldview that he has been espousing for years — is that “illegal aliens” are responsible for all those ills, and exclusively responsible.

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This pretty much captures the gist of the show's debut season.

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Seventeen of the UK's largest pension firms already approved the gist of these reforms in a voluntary agreement earlier this month.

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

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