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Each assignment starts in an old, shabby garage and the mission I watch is delivering water, ammunition and fuel to drone pilots.

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"To use children as a weapon as the home secretary is doing is a shabby thing," he told the Today programme.

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How did the shabby offices of the late 1700s, with their dim lights, coal-burning fireplaces and quill pens, evolve into the sleek, high-tech work environments that we know today?

So high, they were exiled to an office in a shabby shack called the Hut, where their debates would not disturb others.

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But this one was smaller and shabbier than the rest.

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

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