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on the line

noun as in foreground

Strong matches

noun as in jeopardy

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San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan noted before the Nov. 9 game between the teams that the Rams’ “front five, the guys they keep on the line of scrimmage usually is probably the best in the NFL.”

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Elsewhere on the line a train with 475 people had to abruptly stop because of damage.

Yet with so much on the line, this team scored three of the best goals in their 153-year footballing history.

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"This was the chance. One game. This was like a play-off final. We put everything on the line," he said.

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Spain bit back and Oyarzabal finished from close range after Merih Demiral did brilliantly to block Yeremy Pino's shot on the line but it rebounded off another defender nicely for the Real Sociedad forward.

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

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