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screw
verb as in twist, contort
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“Somebody’s got to come together and figure out how to not screw the hardworking people, because there are a lot of us,” he said.
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But I didn’t even screw in half the lights for it.
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Folding clothes is an repetitive task that doesn’t depend on sensory feedback, and if the robot screws up the process, no one is likely to be injured or killed.
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“Is there any way we can screw him?” asked President Richard M. Nixon.
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Troops "keep putting it back together with some sticky tape and screws, and back off to the frontline it goes", Mr Narozhny says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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