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As made famous on the big screen in High Fidelity, mixtapes were the perfect way to woo your crush, or just impress your friends with how many obscure bands you’d heard of.
THE BEST WAY TO SHARE PLAYLISTS ON EVERY MAJOR PLATFORMDAVID NIELDOCTOBER 8, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEFacebook is, in particular, notorious for its attempts to copy and crush rivals, like Snapchat and now TikTok.
BIG TECH’S TIME IS UPRHHACKETTFORTUNEOCTOBER 7, 2020FORTUNEHow to make a fortune tellerThis craft is one of the more difficult on this list, but we’ve placed it high up because of how common a tool it was for trying to find out if your crush liked you back, or if you were going to pass the next test.
FIVE CLASSIC PAPER TOYS YOU CAN MAKE WHEN YOU’RE BORED (WHETHER YOU’RE IN SCHOOL OR NOT)JOHN KENNEDYOCTOBER 7, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThe benefit, according to Rayl, is by everyone taking the same day off, there’s no pent-up crush of workload when people return—because no one else was assigning work while they were out either.
‘INTEGRATORS’ AND ‘SEPARATORS’: HOW MANAGERS ARE HELPING THE TWO TYPES OF REMOTE WORKERS SURVIVE THE PANDEMICJEN WIECZNERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020FORTUNEIf you’re a little boy who has a crush on fox Robin Hood, maybe that leads you to accept yourself sooner.
TOWARD A QUEER DISNEY CANONEMILY VANDERWERFFSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXHer feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDThe Emperor found he had no longer any reason to fear him, and for the moment determined to crush him completely.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThere, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEYou have heard of my misfortunes, and you take a mean advantage of your knowledge to crush and kill me.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe Emperor staked his last card, and ordered the Guard to make one last effort to crush the English infantry.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONWORDS RELATED TO CRUSH
- bear down
- beat down
- break
- break in
- check
- conquer
- control
- crush
- defeat
- discipline
- dominate
- drop
- extinguish
- gentle
- get the better of
- get the upper hand
- get under control
- humble
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- restrain
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- suppress
- tame
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- tone down
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- triumph over
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- bottle
- bring to naught
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- put lid on
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- sit on
- smother
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- spike
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- withhold
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- brings to naught
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- clamps
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- overthrows
- puts an end to
- puts down
- puts kibosh on
- puts lid on
- quashes
- quells
- quenches
- represses
- shushes
- silences
- sits on
- smothers
- snuffs out
- spikes
- squashes
- stamps out
- stifles
- stops
- subdues
- tramples
- withholds
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