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carried away

adjective as in inspired

adverb as in on cloud nine

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“It’s easy to get carried away with a few negative anecdotes.”

Fire stations, police stations, and municipal centers had been carried away with everything else.

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The Wallabies lost in Italy on Saturday, so we should not get too carried away with that win, which should have been by a larger margin given how off the pace Australia were.

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"The benefits are you can access work that's been set if the computers are all full, but the drawbacks are you can get carried away and just start scrolling," she said.

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Separately, the father and daughter were carried away by the avalanche and their bodies were recovered on Sunday.

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

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