as in to rub
to make smooth by friction
beautifully filed nails that obviously had been done by a manicurist
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as in to march
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group
to the strains of that familiar music, this year's graduating class filed into the auditorium
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Emily Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2026
After the Tribune filed multiple FOIA requests seeking more records on CARE’s progress, CDPH produced a different dataset last month that showed 846 responses from that period.
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Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Each Instant Mani set includes 42 press-on nails, 21 different sizes, nail glue, a prep pad, a wooden cuticle stick, a dual-sided file and buffer and application instructions.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2026
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Verb
The amount beneficiaries receive varies based on several factors, including the number of people filing.
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Emily Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2026
After the Tribune filed multiple FOIA requests seeking more records on CARE’s progress, CDPH produced a different dataset last month that showed 846 responses from that period.
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Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
Noun
And with a solid 16GB of RAM and a generous 256GB SSD, this laptop has enough memory and storage to house all your files and multitask up a storm.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Each Instant Mani set includes 42 press-on nails, 21 different sizes, nail glue, a prep pad, a wooden cuticle stick, a dual-sided file and buffer and application instructions.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for file
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The bumper was rubbing the tire and a headlight looked to be dragging.
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Brown alleged Wilhelmy rubbed her stomach, touched her shoulders and spanked her despite objections.
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Moroccan supporters, who had arrived in force, marching toward the stadium amid pounding drums and chants, celebrated their team’s victory and advancement.
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Kansas City officials have offered differing descriptions of what traffic impacts drivers should expect when thousands of Dutch soccer fans march through downtown Thursday for the Netherlands’ World Cup fan walk.
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The drone attacks are worsening fuel shortages, with people reporting rising prices and long queues at the filling stations.
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This, Nunes argues, allows a small, paying slice of the population to jump the queue for police attention.
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Questlove is too thoughtful a filmmaker to sand down the rough edges.
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So that’s a long time for the edges to get sanded off and turned into these happy folkloric stories.
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Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt.
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That exception aside, football’s figurines have strode into North America like a series of Power Rangers, entering the fray, one after the other, each unleashing their unique gifts.
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While wind conditions around Big Bear Lake weren't necessarily high on Friday afternoon, there were reports of strong gusts in the Lucerne Valley, where there's a main SCE line that feeds BVES the majority of its power.
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Made up of sharp angles and straight lines, the quilt and its matching shams have a look that strikes the right balance between classic and contemporary.
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For dressier occasions, platform sandals like Martha Stewart's go-to style offer comfort, support, and polish all in one.
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Through processing that polishes the individual wool fibers, the technology allows wool to have more luster, a softer hand feel, drape and elastic recovery.
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In a report made public on Monday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South was triggered in early June 2021 when two connections between garage columns and the condominium’s pool deck failed.
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In this illustration for a gossip column printed sometime in 1831-2, the writer George Sand is on the protective, even chivalrous arm of a man, but she’s also dressed in men’s clothes.
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