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Merriam-Webster now defines it simply as a “sauce made from the thickened and seasoned juices of cooked meat,” a tidy description for something that shows up in about a thousand guises on American tables.

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The first Stanford was made of real students, who defy tidy put-downs of “kids these days.”

Some survivors among these “fallen angels” have bounced by multiples since then, earning tidy profits for more patient investors.

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Councils would take down the flags in locations where lights will be installed and people could put them back up in the new year, "fresh, tidy and in good condition", he added.

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But she had awoken in the dark and could not get back to sleep, and so had decided to tidy that sorry little nursery, one last time.

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

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