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yawn

verb as in open mouth wide, usually sign of

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“There’s a yawning longevity gap between those who can afford their shelter, food and healthcare, and those who can’t,” Johnson said.

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A sense of uncertainty about the future is prevalent among the young, while frustration is bubbling up over the yawning wealth gap and a general lack of opportunities.

He quit a mere month into the job after struggling to form a cabinet and unite lawmakers in the National Assembly around a budget that narrows France’s yawning deficit.

Since then, Macron has churned through four different prime ministers, struggling to pass annual budgets and narrow the country’s yawning deficit.

Almost always these machines and the services they supported provoked yawns.

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

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