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outspread

adjective as in extended

adjective as in radial

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Occasionally, a couple will even have a Jack and Rose moment, one person with arms outspread, the other clutching them around the waist.

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At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.

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We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.

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It finished the beautiful pattern and settled itself at the center with blue-furred legs outspread.

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In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.

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

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