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Despite still being on antibiotics to help cope with swelling, another individual award was then collected after a 13-point haul in a comfortable quarter-final victory over Australia.

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She was expecting thousands would turn up at most – but the crowds kept swelling.

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While the patient load is swelling, the hospital, too, has faced sharp cuts in its funding.

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For now, many are returning home amid the turmoil, but in the long run, if instability deepens, more are expected to flee Nepal again in search of work, swelling India's already burdened informal labour market.

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They animate the jar’s swelling surface, its bulge already emphasized by wide black bands around the neck and foot.

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

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