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milling

adjective as in grinding

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And Gunn, who wrote and directed the episode, ensured those clues were milling about in plain view, albeit in the background, for the entire season.

From Salon

The men and women shown milling about and idly gazing — which we are now doing in the museum — become projections of us.

"The trouble is, we don't know what the rules of the game are going to be, so we're all milling around, just waiting to find out how to play the new game."

From BBC

The majority of National Guard members were left largely milling about the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos in an operation that the Pentagon had estimated would cost about $134 million.

On a recent morning, National Guards troops — some dressed in full combat fatigues, others in T-shirts and shorts — could be seen exercising, milling about and playing a game of touch football.

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

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