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wing

noun as in organ, device of flight

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The loss of Rogers and Bristol's Louis Rees-Zammit means Ellis Mee, who was called up to the squad on Monday, and Rio Dyer are selected on the wings.

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Still, the institution endured, its grassy campus and low-slung wings perched proudly on the east end of town.

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She snagged a wing on the rubberized feline and plunged into a dive over Queens.

The adjacent San Diego Museum of Art is about to embark on its own expansion, replacing Mosher’s west wing with a design by Norman Foster.

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HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along a corridor lined with cells.

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

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