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in a word

adverb as in in brief

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“In a word, waiting,” said Ashley J. Tellis, an expert on geopolitics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, when asked about Modi’s approach.

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One part of the screener asks children to manipulate the sounds in a word orally, said Gorno-Tempini.

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You can sum it up in a word: Reform.

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The drug business is, in a word, big.

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It looks, in a word, painful, and it is one of the first unmistakable biological signs that the colossus of our era is, in fact, a 79-year-old man who is going to encounter all sorts of bizarre, unpleasant, and funny-looking maladies as time marches forward.

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

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