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chin

noun as in area under mouth

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Hope, hard work and American ingenuity kept chins high and eyes shining as the ceremonial Parade of Ships set sail across the Delaware River.

He has braces on his teeth, blond hair cut in the middle and hints on his chin that he might one day need to shave.

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The Medicare Advantage business has taken it in on the chin in the past two or three years, and is probably turning a corner.

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She had begun to recognize individual chimps, and on a rainy October day in 1960, she spotted the one with white hair on his chin.

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"But I have to also be gracious, thank Jesse. I don't want to get used to it but I have to take it on the chin. It was more like, please, celebrate after the whistle."

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

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