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nit

noun as in mite

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Jimmy struggles to tell Alice and in a darkly humourous moment, blurting out, "Speaking of cars, do you remember what happened to your mom in one? Godd**nit!"

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I don’t have much to offer in the way of critical analysis, or picked nits.

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According to the AAP “no healthy child or adolescent should be excluded from school or allowed to miss school time because of head lice or nits.”

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“There’s a reason why we have had pasteurization for over 100 years —nit works.”

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His hair was tangled into greasy locks, infested by nits.

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

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