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pits
noun as in raw deal
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The discovery of a series of huge Neolithic pits have been confirmed at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site after initial research a few years ago.
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“Curses and tar pits, and children raised by wolves! Why can’t I have a normal family?”
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It was nearly ten, but all this talk of lethal tar pits and strange illnesses had kept the children riveted.
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One system of cable design would require impossibly deep pits of 60 feet or more, at every site.
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But with Labour’s approval rating in the pits, backbenchers rebelled against the prospect of a rate increase.
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