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waving

adjective as in swinging

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adjective as in undulating

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adjective as in wavy

noun as in oscillation

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North Dakota, on the other hand, is one of the states that’s been hardest-hit by this current wave of outbreaks, with 1 in every 1,000 residents now dead from the virus.

By the end of 2021, at least ten elephants will be sporting the new collars in selected parks across Africa, in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund and Vulcan’s EarthRanger, unleashing a new wave of conservation, learning and defending.

Normally, in a recession of the magnitude that we’ve had, we would have already been in the midst of a wave of corporate bankruptcies.

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The wave of hospitalizations and deaths had lagged behind cases, but it crashed down over the past few weeks.

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Before they disappeared into crowded assembly lines, the young Guatemalan immigrants in Bensenville arrived in the United States as part of a new wave of young Central American asylum-seekers who have captured the nation’s attention in recent years.

Islamists stood next to communists waving Palestinian flags and hurling insults at Israeli officials.

Waving a silk cloth, he declared, “Gentlemen, I will have this land just as surely as I now have this handkerchief.”

“Check the dining hall,” a young woman exclaimed, waving to her left, and a dozen persons surged in that direction.

The mother keeps gesturing at them, waving her hands in the air.

From a balcony on one side, a few people looked down on us as we entered, waving hello.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass.

Haggard leant from the window, waving his hand; his wife gazed after the vanishing train, standing like Niobe, dissolved in tears.

"Certainly—certainly," said the Assistant Commissioner, waving one large hand in the direction of a bookshelf.

"There was a pile of 'em that high, Mark," said Perry, waving his hands about a foot above the table.

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

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