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sprawl

verb as in sit or lie spread out

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Layer in a few tactile moments: handwritten menus or place cards if that’s your vibe, or simply a stack of good blankets and genuinely comfortable pillows for that glorious post-meal sprawl on the couch.

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Los Angeles’s urban sprawl and congested freeways make it a prime test market for air taxis, industry insiders say.

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The dwelling sprawls across 2,630 square feet and boasts a humble exterior.

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He sprawled to the court to protect the ball and fired a hit-ahead pass to Austin Reaves while seated on the floor.

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The poignancy of this cruel spiritual appropriation is pictured by Jon Henry in 14 photographs of Black mothers cradling sons, their pietà poses sprawled at actual locations of police killings of Black men.

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

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