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fig

noun as in multiple fruit

noun as in tinker's damn

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There, chimps climb into the trees to harvest fruits and often prefer several types of figs.

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More than 70 percent of those exports, worth $1.4 billion, are perishable farm goods such as figs, pistachios, grapes and pomegranates.

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Others call the dictionary a fig leaf for the interpretive excesses of jurists bent on reading the law to suit a political agenda.

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By that point it would be too late for an international force, which would be little more than a fig leaf for Hamas’s power.

We were approaching Point Fermin, where Meals pointed out the serene magnificence of a Moreton Bay fig tree that threw an acre of shade and cooled a refreshing salt-air breeze.

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