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end up

verb as in become eventually

verb as in to reach or arrive at

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Even the most loyal, the least likely to want to sound negative end up sounding just that privately.

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A lot of workers end up cooped up in their office all day, never taking, or being able to take, time to step outdoors for fresh air.

IMC ended up paying the cost of the lost cargo, she said.

“Those are the kids that are the most vulnerable if they get any kind of a respiratory illness. It can really go badly for them, and they can end up extraordinarily ill,” Hudson said.

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“If this all were to end up in a bonfire of inflation, that would be a complete disaster. But this is not our view,” said Dirk Schumacher, chief economist at KfW.

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

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