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But it's perhaps a tacit acknowledgment that Labour really do have to fight to stay in power after more than a century of hoovering up votes and domination in Welsh politics.

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They were average when Lions fans hoovered up travel packages at huge expense.

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Many of those shops are former Woolworths or Wilko branches, which it hoovered up after the two brands collapsed.

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It’s harder for other shows to get in there when you have only a small handful of shows hoovering up all of the awards.”

We are talking about big, mainly US, tech firms here doing the scraping, and not paying for anything they hoovered up.

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

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