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nod

verb as in fall asleep

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The majority of those driving past us flashed their lights, waved, or nodded in support, including the driver of a giant Pepsi delivery truck.

From Salon

As Graham pointed out, there is “no emphasis on collective bonding,” which he nodded to in the letter used in his first term.

From Salon

He will also talk about rebuilding, in a nod to Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee's postwar government's programme of new towns, which fixed the devastation wreaked by bombs as well as poverty.

From BBC

I didn’t ask Shires about the nod to the track that was supposedly written for her, an unguarded acoustic number exploring the excitement and anxieties of a fresh passion, but she offered an explanation.

Emery celebrated McGinn and Buendia's strikes as if they had secured a title, a nod to the pressure the head coach puts himself under.

From BBC

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

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