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lance

verb as in pierce

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Ray’s mysterious and fraught history as a member of the British military during the Troubles is a festering boil this film will eventually lance.

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Ministers also argued that at a time of geopolitical uncertainty, when old allies were less reliable and new partnerships had to be formed, the Chagos row was a diplomatic boil than needed to be lanced.

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The sustenance is presided over by a sculpture of an Amazonian woman, who wields a squeegee rather than a lance.

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Stephen, recruited for his ability to provide the necessary tools, had produced a 100-tonne jack, explosives, and a thermal lance, which heats and melts steel with pressurized oxygen to create very high temperatures.

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For them to catch fire, he says “it would take some spectacular lancing of the actual cells themselves, which would mean going through a very strong external structure”.

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

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