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bark

noun as in plant covering

noun as in animal yelp

verb as in yelp

Strongest matches

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in shout

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“The bark could be worse than bite,” however, as China continues to use such tactics to gain leverage in trade negotiations, they say.

The perception of turmoil bleeds into reality, and suddenly, the kids won’t stop barking and the laundry is screaming.

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This viewer was concerned about the way “Boots” barks “attention!”—with a montage of Cam’s bullying at school and his rash decision to enlist with the straight Ray via the Marine Corps “buddy system.”

Uplands’s autumnal and only slightly less prestigious sibling Rush Creek Reserve is a decadent, soft cheese wrapped in spruce bark that drops only in October and November.

That’s because the real story of the so-called TrumpRX drug marketplace is that once again the White House’s bark was worse than its bite.

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

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