Thesaurus / stroke
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Indeed, scientists have linked khat consumption to increased risk of strokes and heart diseases.
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However, you can bring them back to sharpness with just a few strokes along a sharpening stone.
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So they adopted its broad strokes—including its limits on data collection and its requirements on data storage and data deletion—and then loosened some of its language.
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Instead of swimming straight by twirling their tails like propellers, human sperm flick their tails lopsidedly and roll to balance out the off-center strokes.
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By itself, such a lopsided stroke would lead to swimming in circles.
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To accomplish this stroke it was necessary to travel forty leagues along the sea coast.
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The sea, also, at every stroke of the oar shone as with the light of myriads of glowworms.
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The League, furious at this stroke of policy, tried to impose a council of thirty-six advisers upon the king.
When the patient was five years old the father died suddenly from a stroke, at the age of forty-two.
He stands shoulder to shoulder with his suffering brothers, and makes his stroke for liberty.
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WORDS RELATED TO STROKE
- apple polish
- argue into
- banter
- beguile
- blandish
- bootlick
- brownnose
- build up
- butter up
- con
- crowd
- deceive
- decoy
- delude
- dupe
- entice
- entrap
- get around
- get next to
- hand a line
- induce
- influence
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- lure
- make up to
- maneuver
- massage
- mislead
- oil
- play up to
- push
- rub the right way
- seduce
- snow
- soap
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- tantalize
- tempt
- urge
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
- apple polish
- argue into
- banter
- beguile
- blandish
- bootlick
- brownnose
- build up
- butter up
- con
- crowd
- deceive
- decoy
- delude
- dupe
- entice
- entrap
- get around
- get next to
- hand a line
- induce
- influence
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- lure
- make up to
- maneuver
- massage
- mislead
- oil
- play up to
- push
- rub the right way
- seduce
- snow
- soap
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- tantalize
- tempt
- urge
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
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