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She and the mayor-elect share broad goals on lowering crime, rooting out corruption, and giving police officers the tools and support they need, she added.

When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong.

They could understand why this very bright guy rooting around in financial statements might stumble across a small company no one else was paying attention to.

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Rachel could have been some Hollywood cliché, but Fanning keeps us rooting for this golden girl who hopes she’ll be taken seriously by playing a Nordic depressive.

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But not rooting for the Dodgers was never an option.

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

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