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on high

adjective as in overhead

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adverb as in over

preposition as in above

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Rachel Reeves said the government would be undertaking "additional enforcement activity on High Streets, focusing on illicit tobacco and vaping products", which would involve deploying 350 newly-recruited criminal investigators part of the fraud investigation team.

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“This move is extremely dangerous and should put Japan’s neighboring countries and the international community on high alert,” Mao Ning, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, said Monday.

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We see the brothers standing in the center, unharmed; the flames reaching out to afflict everyone around them; and the observers on high looking perplexed.

Nigeria's president put security forces on high alert and sent defence minister Alhaji Bello Matawalle to lead the search for the Kebbi school girls.

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Northern Australia is on high alert as a tropical cyclone barrels down on the state, as authorities warn the worst of the storm will strike on Saturday.

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

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