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spider

noun as in frying pan

Strongest match

Weak matches

noun as in griddle

Strong matches

Weak match

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On the remarkable and moving “Little Gears,” a waltz-time number built atop piano and brushed drums, she meditates on a spider weaving a web.

Now Wall Street prices could be quoted the same day in Philadelphia, and soon in Boston, Buffalo and west to the Mississippi as the telegraph covered the nation like a spider web.

With his experience as a trade commissioner, an impressive spider's web of contacts, and respected political nous, Mandelson was soon determined to be an excellent potential fit.

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This wasp hunts the spider to feed its offspring, according to the National Parks Service.

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And in the case of the African social spiders, in Namibia, it is quite literally the final sacrifice.

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

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