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grind

noun as in tedious job

verb as in sharpen

verb as in oppress

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By the end there were only 20,000 English people watching me and Strauss grind it around Melbourne.

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Perhaps this is a week to be grateful for the fortitude of patient, determined actors willing to stick with it for years and grind out change.

This grinding causes the materials to react at room temperature, breaking the carbon-fluorine bonds within Teflon and producing harmless carbon along with sodium fluoride, a stable salt widely used in fluoride toothpaste.

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While some UPS Store locations will be open, the carrier’s Domestic Ground, Air, and International shipping services will grind to a halt on the holiday.

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On the streets, the protests have evolved into a grinding war of attrition.

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

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