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perch

noun as in object placed high for sitting on

verb as in sit atop of

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The sun is perched on the horizon, the sky is pink and blue, there are trees and plants.

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But most of them understand they only get that perch by flattering right-wing views that a woman’s place is really in the kitchen.

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"Now she seems to be Chelsea's number nine. The level she is at now, it is going to be really difficult for someone to knock her off that perch, even a fully-fit Sam Kerr."

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As he perches on his make-shift bed, he tells me why he thinks prisoners make better soldiers than civilians who are mobilised.

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The roster of retreads includes the current occupant of the Oval Office, who is only the second president in U.S. history to regain the perch after losing it four years prior.

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

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