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life preserver
noun as in flotation device
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As in Brazil, it’s a nakedly political effort to fling a life preserver to an endangered right-wing ally.
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I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.
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In a tempest of tragedy, basketball was his life preserver.
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Landon Knack has been a human life preserver for the Dodgers, an unsung rookie right-hander who has helped keep the rotation afloat when seas get a little rough.
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In his life preserver he looked like a beached walrus.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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