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could

verb as in preserve fruit, vegetable

Strongest match

Strong match

Weak match

verb as in fire from job

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Former spouses who no longer want to be parents could also find themselves obligated to pay child support, Cahn said.

She left a fast-paced, coalition-building role when she and her husband decided to have children so that she could be home with them—now ages 2½ and 11 months—during the day.

EUGENE, Ore. — The last time he made it here, to the doorstep of the College Football Playoff, Lincoln Riley could only watch as USC’s hopes slipped away with a single hamstring pull.

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"All my anxieties disappeared whenever I finally got an interpreter into the hospital. It means that I could finally communicate, I could finally understand what was going on."

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Nothing could bridge the gap - and the talks teetered on the verge of collapse.

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

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