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awful

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Taylor-O’Connor: It’s awful, but when you lose a pet, the world sees it like you’ve lost maybe a quarter of a human, or a half of a human.

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The emotion, the bonkerdom, the ridiculous high of winning this game and the awful low of losing.

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"We had to wear these awful BBC Two blouses," Ms Brown said.

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Mr Brown said the facility in which Mrs Hughes-Brown has been detained is "awful", adding that detainees are getting unhealthy food and are not having their medical needs met.

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“It was awful,” Appel, now 42 and married to another man, recalled.

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

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