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bowl

noun as in hollow, concave container

verb as in roll a ball down a lane

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"I feel like we've got some good options if we do get stretched, which is one of the great things of domestic cricket in Australia," he said of the bowling stocks.

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Then again, my mother never attempted to feed me, as my mate puts it, bowls of “yellow ooze with pink misery circles in it.”

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"Rumour has it they are frightened of his express pace bowling ahead of the Ashes," he said.

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Political scientist Robert Putnam spent decades documenting America’s declining social capital — how people stopped joining clubs, attending church, even bowling in leagues — in his seminal book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.”

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The child tosses a soccer ball at three plastic bowling pins gathered in front of him, knocking down two.

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

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