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woman

noun as in female human

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A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham city centre.

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The woman was attacked on Smallbrook Queensway, shortly before 21:00 GMT on Friday.

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And while actors aren’t required to be activists, evading a concrete statement while promoting a film about a woman who has devoted her post-boxing career to social advocacy gives “Christy” and Sweeney an incontrovertible dissonance.

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Now there are dollar signs in his eyes and a hollow hum in the space where his heart should be, as if to suggest she might be a woman he could love, if a man like James knew how to love anyone.

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Along the road this summer, we met other retirees who had found very different big things to pursue—a couple in Idaho whose highlight is skiing all winter, one in Montana who had left California to run a coffee shop, another in Maine who quit work to buy a bicycle shop, a woman who volunteers summers at North Cascades National Park, friends who retreat to an island home for the summer and engage in town duties.

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

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