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dislodge

verb as in knock loose

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Along with team member Laura Clifton Byrne, an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, he also shadowed foraging chimpanzees, retrieving freshly dislodged fruits from beneath the canopy and measuring their alcohol content.

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For Germany, Europe’s longtime engine of growth, global shifts have dislodged the tentpoles of its economic success: cheap gas from Russia, booming export markets in China and the U.S. defense umbrella.

She praised her hair and make-up artist Jane Green for being ready, willing and able to dislodge the blockage by performing the Heimlich manoeuvre.

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Even worse, if the boulder refused to become dislodged, it might drag the Mykali down to the bottom.

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Overwhelming firepower dislodged them in June, but the militants blew the bridge connecting the two settlements as they withdrew -- using so much dynamite that there was barely a scrap left to scavenge.

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

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