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leg

noun as in appendage used for support

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Throughout his career, Ovechkin largely dodged serious injury until last November, when he fractured his fibula after getting clipped in the leg by an opposing defender.

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Even before the Fever shut Clark down for good, as she struggled through leg and groin injuries, her numbers cratered.

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His wife insisted on an ultrasound, which showed a clot in his leg.

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Along the way, some data providers have shifted away from trying to forecast government numbers, and giving traders a leg up in markets, toward trying to better understand the economy.

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The latest leg of the rally began in August, when Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank was ready to begin cutting interest rates in an economy with low unemployment and above-target inflation.

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